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Australasia - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Australasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Australasia is the area that includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the many smaller islands in the vicinity, most of which are the eastern part of Indonesia. |
| | Australasia is sometimes used as a term for Australia and New Zealand alone, in the absence of another word limited to those two countries. |
| | From a biological point of view, however, Australasia is a distinct region with a common evolutionary history and a great many unique plants and animals, some of them common to the entire area, others specific to particular parts but sharing a common ancestry. |
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