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Australia is a large landmass, Oceania is not. Oceania is a collection of islands. Reply reply. TheBritishCanadian. •. It depends on the context. In terms of political geography, continents are just groups of countries, so Oceania is a continent. In terms of physical geography, continents are landmasses, so Australia is a continent. I've seen ...
The Oceania continent has Australia , fiji , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , and many more lands are actually in this 1 continent. Most people have never heard of this and if you ask them to name off all the continents they will list the 7 but with it being Australia as one not oceania .
The continent is Oceania. From wikipedia: The term is often used more specifically to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate islands[7][8][9][10] or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian ecozone (Wallacea and Australasia) or the Pacific ecozone (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, excluding both New Zealand ...
Oceania is not a continent. It is more of a substitute category in a continent based classification. Australia and its geographically associated islands (Tasmania, New Guinea, etc.) form a geographic continent, some also argue for a continent of Zealandia (consisting of New Zealand, New Caledonia and a couple of stray Australian territories ...
The continent of Australia- the country of Australia + the island of New Guinea. Oceania- the continent of Australia + three other regions of the Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) Note that this is all true in English, other languages do not differentiate Oceania and the Australian continent. Respect the language you are speaking.
The answer usually varies considering the part of the world people come from. In some countries Oceania is considered as a continent (comprising all the small islands like Niue or Tokelau and big ones like Australia and New Guinea), while in others (mainly the Anglophone countries) Australia is a continent. 3. Award. Streggling.
There's a cultural aspect to it. Australia was always a country, and in some places is still taught as a country and a continent. In others, however, it's grouped in with the geographic region of Oceania-- most of which lies on the pacific plate, and the whole region is referred to as the continent of Oceania by some countries. Our conceptions ...
Google says it is, and Australia is a COUNTRY inside it, but Google also says Australia is a continent, also I've never heard oceania being apart of the 7 continents. Names are arbitrary. Australia doesn't exist. Depends on context. Using the loose definition "A connected landmass larger than an island," it would make sense to call Australia a ...
Australia was listed as a country and continent, in the the continent of Australia, as I expected. However, New Zealand was listed as being part of the continent of Oceania, not Australia or Australia and Oceania. When I looked into Oceania it was just listed as a region and not a full continent.
Oceania is a better term. Otherwise New Zealand & Hawaii aren't in any continent. For practical purposes, Australia should only refer to the country. Australia is the continent as it is a land mass. Oceania is a geographical region, which incorporates the continent of Australia and several island countries.