Where Does Australia End?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- Where does Australia end? Australia is famously an island continent so it seems like an easy question, but it’s actually a bit complex. The problem isn’t the Australian mainland, which definitely ends at its coastline, but rather which of Australia’s neighboring islands are actually part of the continent. In terms of biology, geology, and oceanography, Australia could extend far beyond its mainland - potentially even halfway into Indonesia. Let’s Explore!
About the warning: www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/i...
End music: Waltzing Matilda
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 The Torres Strait
2:04 The Sahul Shelf
4:03 The Wallace Line & Lombok Strait
5:47 Sulawesi & Wallacea
7:07 All the other directions
9:12 Conclusion
Corrections:
7:41 Macquarie Island is pronounced "Muh-KWA-ree" island
Citations:
Bass Strait: archive.org/details/biostor-2...
Torres Strait: www.deepreef.org/2023/12/23/n...
"The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise" - Alfred Russel Wallace
First people in Australia: digital.library.adelaide.edu....
Cuscus: www.iucnredlist.org/species/1...
Lombok Strait initiative: shipandbunker.com/news/apac/7...
Indonesian Throughflow: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Macquarie Island: www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topi...
New Zealand Fauna: doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2...
Australasian Realm: www.oneearth.org/realms/austr...
Image Credits:
Cape York Sign: Gonzo Gooner, CC BY 3.0
Torres Strait Islanders: Tsima Radio4MW, CC BY 2.0
Boigu Dancer: u-tern77, CC BY 2.0
Didgeridoo Player: Official Nambassa Photographer, CC BY 2.5
Papua New Guinea Children: Amy Bauer, CC BY 2.5
Papuan women: Jeremy Weate, CC BY 2.0
Aceh Dancers: SuperSomebodies, CC BY 3.0
Kakadu Rock Art: Photo by Phil Whitehouse, CC BY 2.0
Footage and data from GPlates: CC BY 3.0
Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo: Tim Williams, CC BY 2.0
Moluccan King Parrot: Helsinki***, CC BY 2.0
White Bellied Woodpecker: Sriniketana, CC BY 3.0
Strait of Malacca congestion: dronepicr, CC BY 2.0
Anoa, Sulawesi Bear Cuscus: Sakurai Midori, CC BY 3.0
Sulawesi Geology map: Macrostrat, CC BY 4.0
Sulawesi mountain: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0
Duvaucel's Gecko: Jennifer Moore, CC BY 3.0
Eastern Stone Gecko: Matt, CC BY 2.0
New Zealand Short Tailed Bat: Colin O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0
Marsupial map: Michal Klajban, CC BY 4.0
Monito del Monte: José Luis Bartheld, CC BY 2.0
Interesting fact:
All Possums in Australia are called Possums based off of the Virginia Opossum. The word “Opossum” is an Algonquin loan word that was adopted by the English to describe the species.
So, when Cook encountered them in the late 18th century while sailing around Australia, he named them “Possums,” derived from the short-hand term for “opossum.”
That is an interesting fact, thanks!
sounds cap, I'm Australian and have never heard that possums were named after an american word.
I need to look them up because Australasian Possums look very different to every Opossum I've seen.
(Kiwi here)
Ok.
@@mreggs3731you thought it was complete coincidence that the small marsupial Opossum (pronounced 'possum') of north america, was named the same as our small marsupial possums?
Aussie here, I fuck with this explaination. Shit's well researched and articulated. Citations in description too? fucking ace! Acknowledgement of aboriginal cultural apprehension with pictures of dead? Done amazingly!
Thanks! I try my best to keep my videos to this standard - I'm glad it worked here.
this shits (the video) bussin fr fr no cap
"Inney, mate"
Bro's cursing up a storm.
I used to have the office next to the Australian Liaison officer at a Joint Services Command. He inducted me as a member of the Bendigo Order of Old Bastards. I was the first non-Aussie. I got to visit Australia in the late 80s. Wonderful country and people. You do have some VERY serious empty going on once you get out of the cities.
Well as an Aussie I was quite happy with everything in this vidWAIT DID YOU SAY KOALIFY ???!
Haha, yep I did!
Don't forget the very creative "Macquarie"!
or PILL BAR RAR... pilbra 🤣
Who needs to say “remember to like” when a sublime pun will do. KOALAFY! 💜
Yeah, this was all very well done until he pulled a cringe card.
politically it's even larger.
The Australian Antartic territory is huge, but even outside of that you have the Cocos Islands and Heard and Mcdonald islands and Christmas Island. As well as the Lorde howe island, Macquarie island mentioned in the video. (pronounced Mack-Qwar-rie, btw).
Ringleader. Town
Also Norfolk Island, the Coral Sea Islands, and the Ashmore and Cartier Islands. Lord Howe Island part of NSW, and Macquarie Island is part of TAS.
@@Jonesy1701Have you been to Norfolk Island? There's a standing protest against the Australian occupation of their island. They particularly resent having to pay tax to Canberra when they never needed tax to look after themselves before.
@@Ggdivhjkjl *Of our island. Norfolk Island is an Australian territory, not simply an island we occupy. And the citizens there are Australians, and are subject to Australian law just like the rest of us. Just because you don't use tax, doesn't mean you are suddenly exempt. And Norfolk island was actually being majorly bankrolled by the Commonwealth, and then needed a financial bailout after they demonstrated they cannot self govern without a lot of help from the Commonwealth, so don't make out as though they don't see any money from Canberra.
@@Ggdivhjkjlpolitics aside, it's still an Australian territory.
G'day from Australia,
I've added this to my documentary playlist so others can enjoy and learn.
This is the most accurate Australian piece I've seen. Even us locals get it wrong, but you, sir, are 100% correct.
It shows the level of your fact-checking is spot on
Absolutely love how you included the article explaining the warning. This is something I never even knew about! Love learning knew things I wasn't expecting to learn when clicking on a video ❤
Awesome, glad you could learn something extra!
Ringleader. WROLD
It's not easy to Koalafy, because How much can a Koala Bear?
I think it's best to just leave a ko-wallaby.
@@SignoreGalilei ~ She'll definitely lead you astray, Liana.
I don't know if I canberra-nymore!
Are you having a Go anna?
this is beautiful
Great video! The acknowledgment of indigenous peoples was great to see, really showing an understanding and respect for the culture’s importance to our country, and the geological explanations were easy to understand and effective. Keep it up. :D
Ringleader. WROLD
This is such a good channel, always posts bangers
Thanks, glad you're enjoying the videos!
love the addition of indigenous names and terms as well as waltzing matilda at the end
You won me over with your indigenous content warning - coming from a apparent non-Australian, that was a pretty culturally aware sign of respect!
Love how you considered Indigenous viewers! I’m Indigenous (Gandangarra) and I rarely see this kind of consideration on TH-cam ❤❤
I'm glad to do it! I've seen this kind of warning on both online and legacy media that I respect a lot so I decided to look and find out more. I figured it was the responsible decision.
no one stops you from making videos yourself from any perspective you want
but let me guess you need a white man to do that
Where can I learn more?
As a widajuri man I am glad you respected our culture thank you
@@thomasbarca9297What is it like being wiradjuri more broadly indigenous experience in australia? I an american have had much curiosity on the indigenous history and origins of australia.
really nice to see the consideration of indigenous viewers!
Another insightful video, well done!
Thank you! Glad you found it insightful.
Excellent depth and breadth in your research, well done mate! I love your work!
Ringland. News
This is so well done! I was honestly shocked to see that you have less than 100k subscribers.
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Loved the video. I learnt so many new things
FUN FACT: The geographic center of mainland Australia is located due west of Alice Springs.
Cool!
But the Lambert thing is near Finke.
Another great video, as always!
Thanks!
@@SignoreGalilei WHAT?
Thank you for excellent documentary 👏
Fascinating! Thanks for the deep dive 🙂
This is some A+ work man!
Very well rounded! Love it!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting and insightful video. Nice to see well-researched content.
Thanks, glad you like it!
I loved this presentation. It was so well done and very well explained.
Thanks!
You didn’t really give us a strait answer just a bunch of suggestions and ideas of we’re it could end but still a great video
great content; but the voice recording was too soft, as the sudden loudness of the outro music clearly shows.
Hmm...yeah I had a slightly different setup this time than in the past (I have a new microphone shock mount which affected the positions of everything) so I may still have some tweaking to do for the ideal volume level.
Came to say the same thing - Great vid, well researched and fun presentation. But yeah, the mic levels were very low
The Waltzing Matilda outro is a nice touch
Thanks!
I learnt something today. Amazing video 👌
Love your channel
Thanks!
Great vid! Thanks!
You're welcome - glad you liked it!
Excellent educational tutorial
When talking about the Lord Howe island, did you mean Norfolk Island by any chance? Howe is just a normal ocean island on ocean crust, but Norfolk is actually a volcanic tip emplaced on the sunken Zealandia continent, considerably further East. Norfolk's ecology is also very unique, yet tied closer to that of NZ/NC. Norfolk is a territory of Australia, but most stuff is handled by Queensland after it was handed over from NSW in the last decade or so. Fun fact, Kingston on Norfolk island is the 2nd oldest settlement in Australia, having been founded just over a month after Sydney. This makes it older than all other state capitals in the country!
Also if I may make a suggestion, boost the vocal volume somewhat, I had to turn it up to hear you clearly. Great video otherwise.
Those are some fun facts! Both Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island are geologically part of Zealandia according to the sources I read.
@@SignoreGalilei Norfolk is indeed ruled by Australian by laws.
Can you make a video on the debate about whether Oceania is a continent or a region.
I enjoyed the video which brought together the various viewpoints about Australia.
As an Australian, I find outsiders are already so confused about Oz that giving them the broader views through different scientific research will just bamboozle them.
I doubt that many even know about Zealandia, which would likely never have been identified without the recent advances in satellite imagery.
I’ve learned about the Wallace line, the Sahul, biogeography, and Zealandia in the past year. I think it will take a long time for it to filter through the education system here in Oz, since they are so busy with social re-engineering, not scientific research.
Anyway, we see Australia (and the Australian continent) as the mainland and Tasmania, plus the few surrounding islands, and a slab of Antarctica. Tasmania was always known since many ships passed through Bass Strait in the early years and Tasmania was one of the penal colonies.
Our history acknowledges New Zealand as our closest neighbour, despite the closer distance with the far north. Still it is quite far away and totally different in many ways.
Far North Queensland was virtually impenetrable for the settlers for most of the ‘Australian’ history of European settlement. It was far from the movers and shakers of south eastern Australia.
New Guinea was a protectorate of Australia and was not considered to be part of Oz since the water was the boundary of our country.
Glad you enjoyed the video - thanks for that additional context. As someone from the US, I think a lot of Americans similarly don't think of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the other US territories as truly "American", if they even know that those places are part of our country at all. The idea that Brazilians consider themselves to be on the same continent as the US is also quite surprising to most in the US. My goal is to help people learn and think about the world, rather than make them confused, but I do acknowledge that there is a risk of confusion if people lack the proper context.
southeast papua new guinea was only a protectorate of australia briefly before being annexed, after which point it was the australian territory of papua until 1975.
and northeast papua new guinea became part of australia in 1949.
soooooo
@@TYsdrawkcaB
That may be so, but as far as most Australians are concerned, we are the mainland, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, Melville Island, Kangaroo Island, the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Christmas Island, the Torres Strait and Tiwi Islands, and a few others.
Papua New Guinea was always a responsibility, not really part of Australia. Maybe because it is mountainous and covered in vegetation. It just isn’t Australian, even though our Northern regions are similar.
Having shared boarding school with students from PNG and Bougainville, etc, I can assure you that they do not consider themselves to be Australian. They come here to school on sufferance but cannot wait to get home again.
@@coraliemoller3896 You have a really good knowledge of the country and its surrounds, Coralie; did you learn some of this in a degree course & if so, which one, if I might ask?
@@Silkz0jet
I’m Australian. I’m almost 69 years old and I have always lived in Sydney. I know certain facts or lore about Australia and it’s environs. My education was in modern languages and law, which don’t relate to any knowledge about geography or Australian politics. I was around for the politics from high school to now.
I’m a reader so I have a wide range of interests and many topics that I absorb. I’m curious, so I follow threads and find snippets from surfing from one website to another.
A lot of recent knowledge, including about the newly discovered (mostly submerged) continent of Zealandia, came from watching TH-cam videos and then following up with Google and Wikipedia searches.
There is a wealth of information floating around but it may not all be accurate.
Fascinating
I had no idea.
Thank you for the insight. 😂
Is the Wallace Line where Wallis and Fortuna got its name from? Loved this, thankyou!
Hey mate you forgot Herd Island. Between Perth and South Africa. It’s the largest mountain in the world if u count it from its base which is below the ocean surface. Loved the vid btw
How do I find the version of waltzing Matilda and the end of the song?
Where is the map at 1.39 taken from? I knew that Madagascar had been populated from Southeast Asia, but I wonder what the evidence was for the area marked light green on the map. And i am very curious as to what the line to the Niger delta represents
It's based on a source by linguist Roger Blench - the green zone is places where there's weak evidence of Austronesian presence, not enough to be conclusive. The West African connection is based on Southeast Asian crops showing up in West Africa before East Africa and before the Portuguese arrived. It could have been Malagasy Austronesians that brought them over, but it could easily have been someone else too.
Great video. I just found found some of the maps quite difficult to sea with low lighting. Otherwise great stuff!👍
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into brightening them in the future. Glad you liked the video in general!
That was really informative! Thanks from as Aussie.
Quality video mate
Thanks!
always good to learn more about my country 🙂
9:29, Im jumping into oncoming traffic and youre the reason why /j
This was very interesting as an australian inhabitant, did know know cockies went that far up tbh, pretty cool
The way you say Pilbara and Bali cracks me up
As other aussies have said, this is really well done and a great explanation. I have one gripe, why did you say Macquarie like daiquiri 😭 its mac-quarry, like a dig site. Every city has a suburb and several streets named Macquarie, plus a university, so we know it well haha. Otherwise 10/10
Anyone who thinks that Oceania is a continent needs to give themselves an uppercut.
1000%
i'm an australian and i call the continent oceania
though at the same time i also use it more often as a region for the pacific islands too
@@TYsdrawkcaBif you are Australian then you should know better. Australia is a continent, as a matter of fact it is the only land mass in the world that is a country, continent and island.
Before you call yourself Australian learn about Australia
@@SuperJeshua007 you should know that it's not an island before telling people what does or does not make them australian
@@SuperJeshua007it’s actually they only solid rock in the world ! AUSTRALIA DOESNT MOVE ALL OTHERS ACTUALLY MOVE
Interesting conundrum you raised here; the sea link to New Guinea is a heck of a lot more shallow than that separating Tasmania from the mainland. Then there is the elephant in the room you profiled; the Wallace Line. I noticed a number of prominent universities around the world still don't have a definitive answer as to where the Australian continent actually extends. As an Australian, I think I'll just let this one pass.
Great video and appreciate your acknowledgement of indigenous people like me.
Just a quick pronunciation correction:
“Cuss-cuss” not “cooss-cooss” - a hard letter “u” here.
Thankyou for your disclosure at the beginning. I am a Kuarna woman from Adelaide, South Australia and it's a strict taboo in my culture. I will still watch, but it's always shocking and jarring to see images or hear names without a warning.
You're welcome, I'm glad the warning helped. I'll freely acknowledge I'm not an expert on this topic, but I've seen similar warnings on other shows, and I did some research on it. It seemed like the appropriate and respectful thing to do, and I'm happy that it helped you to be forewarned.
Awesome video, thanks! Keep up the great work
You're welcome! Glad you liked it.
Australia also has a large territorial claim in Antartica, has a variety of islands, and used to run other places as colonies (such as PNG).
True - it's pretty interesting stuff
Actually it’s not a claim, half of Antarctica is Australian and our neighbours there have agreed our borders so that’s all that’s needed to define our land.
@@seanlander9321 Always was, always will be? lol
Australia plays its football (soccer) in the Asian Football Confederation. But just to add to the confusion, the A-League has one team in New Zealand, a member of the Oceania Football Confederation, and will add another next season (notwithstanding APL collapsing).
I’m pretty sure we do the same for basketball, but many other sports are still affiliated with Oceania. This can cause problems such as when the Australian handball team had its Olympic qualification reversed due to concerns about the relative strength of the Oceania group. That was also the reason why all FIFA men’s World Cups prior to the next one had no direct qualification spots for the Oceania Football Confederation, which led then-Football Federation Australia to apply to move to the AFC, into which we were duly accepted in 2006.
Politically, we are a member of the Pacific Nations Forum but also an associate member of ASEAN, as well as the G20 and APEC. My hometown, Melbourne, recently hosted an ASEAN Special Summit.
The way I see it
Australia: The Country
Oceania: The Continent
Boundaries of Oceania: Half of Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands
Oceania was invented by United nations system
nicely illustrated
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No mention of Christmas & Cocos Islands? Christmas Island sits literally on the edge of the Java Trench, far closer to Java than the Australian mainland. You can even easily swim out and see the trench with merely a snorkel.
Hey, I love this channel. As an Italian I’m might suggest “Signor Galileo” sounds and readsmuch better. Just for you info, with love
Thanks, glad you like the channel! I had a poll a while ago about maybe changing the channel name but people pretty overwhelmingly wanted me to keep it despite the grammar.
@@SignoreGalilei oh ok! That’s ok, it’s not even a grammar mistake, it’s just a habit we have, kudos to you for the content you create
Great video. Australia also has islands far out in the indian ocean, some closer to Madagascar Africa then Australia
i’ve skipped over your content a couple of times when it’s been recommended to me because your channel name and the topics you cover kinda give off ai generated vibes but i’m glad i decided to actually see if my assumption was right because this is a cool video
8:35 I didnt know Kiwis could hypothetically swim to Australia 🤔
Can you do New Zealand Next?
(mention these please:)
Auckland Island
Campbell Island
The Snares
Anitpodes Islands
Bounty Islands
Chatham Islands
Kermedec Islands
Balleny Islands
Ross Dependancy
Cook Islands
Tokelau
Nuie
and The Three Kings Islands?
Just ask him to do your essay for you
Can you do Antartica next
Would have been good to also include the boundary that encompasses all the islands that are part of Australia politically or the maritime jurisdiction of Australia.
Fair. That's not one continuous region, though.
Macquarie Island is pronounced as a Scottish surname: "Mack Quarry". It's a very common name in Australia named for Governor Lachlan Macquarie who put down the Rum Rebellion and transformed the Sydney Penal Colony away from being a prison in the early 19th century.
Am I the only one who ears the audio too low? I had to put the volume at 100% to barely hear
I think you're not the only one - I saw some other comments about that.
This reminds me of how Australia defines the Southern/Antarctic Ocean as directly bordering it.
Posted with a link to a map but looks like YT didnt like it :P
TH-cam is being annoying about links
@@SignoreGalilei Strange too since it was just Wikimedia Commons
How would Australia and Antarctica compare in size if the ice cap were removed? Wouldn't Antarctica count as a number of separate land masses in that case?
The glaciers squish down the land, so some of the parts that are currently below sea level might rebound back and reconnect the continent
You forgot about Cocos Keeling Islands, which is a part of Australia, and sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
They are very cool! I wound up focusing this video on the continent of Australia rather than the country's external territories, but there are a lot of interesting territories.
@@SignoreGalilei fair enough. It was a good video.
Continents are composed mostly of less dense rock with a chemical composition similar to granite.
Oceania? Ocean is composed of salty water. Apparently in 1812 geographer Conrad Malte-Brun could not tell the difference.
Epic video. I appreciate the separation of the mainland from the other islands, like my own in New Zealand. A lot of people, once they figure out where we are, assume we're "just like Australia/An Australian state" when New Zealand, or Aotearoa, is a country of its own, with its own laws, cultural history, even animals!
However, Australia and New Zealand are arm-linked when it comes to residency. Citizens of either country are allowed to work in either country under almost similar laws, however the ability to work in Australia or New Zealand from other countries has very high law demand (Australia, you have to do something like 12 months of hard labour to earn residency or the ability to work under residency)
Was that a History Matters reference? SO cool
Which are you referring to? I do like their stuff, but I didn't put in any intentional references to them this time.
@@SignoreGalilei During the Sahul Shelf portion at 3:56, how many others did I miss? Lol
Oh it's the "so" lol. I came up with that one independently but it does seem very similar to the History Matters vibe.
@@SignoreGalilei I mean it isn't a "well" but it's a nice touch. Excellent content btw
Speaking as an Australian, we don't consider the continent as Oceania. The Continent is the main landmass. The rest is part of the continental plate.
You got a like becuse of the koala pun at the end. Well done good sir !
Haha amazing, thanks for the like!
1. I've heard that New Calidonia was originaly part of the Queensland Coast that splits off and drifted away at some stage. Therefore a lot of the geology and biology are similar.
2. Most of the Coral Sea reefs, cays and Islets belong to Australia and are Commenwealth teretories. They extend out more than half way to New Caladonia.
3. You showed an image of Macquarie Island which is a Sub Antartic Island belonging to Australia, however there was no mention of Heard and McDonald Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, which are also Sub Antartic Islands that belong to Australia. Heard Island is actually Australia's only active Volcanoe and support Australia's only Glaciers outside of Antartica.
4. Australia's teretorial claim is the biggest in Antartica.
5. Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean belong to Australia.
6. Cocos Keeling Attol in the Indian Ocean is an Australian Terretory. It was a British teretory, however the local Malay people were given the choice what country they wanted to belong and they voted for Australia.
7. PNG was governed by Australia before becoming Indipendant.
Id be interested in a video exploring the zealandia continent, an "8th" continent
Well done.
Thanks!
That was interesting
Great video about something that I never thought about and I even learned something about the indigenous people in Australia!
Norfolk island sobbing screaming and throwing up rn
The warning at the start was for the aboriginals of australia or indiginous people and it is their culture that when somebody passes away they are not seen or talken about or anything like that in case you were wondering
Southern Tasmania's ancient rocks matched up with the North America continent. Kind'a broke off... Yeah, nah yeah
Goood Regurgitating
You should do this with what people consider the beginning of “Europe” and the beginning of “Middle East”
If you talk about connection arabia was millions of years longer connected to africa than eurasia. Even though now humans call it part of asia what I culturally understand but not geographically :o
India, too - it's got its own tectonic plate and everything. Continents can be weird sometimes.
@@SignoreGalileiand depending on how you classify it, India is on the same plate as Australia (indo Australian plate), although I think that hypothesis is a bit outdated now
@@SignoreGalileii like to keep simple "A continuose landmass" so Eurasia, Africa, Australia, South America, North America".
Kind of makes me feel like exploring Australia.
as an Aussie, at 00:10 when you blocked out Tassie while focusing on Australia I fuckin cracked up. Tassies will fuckin hate that lol
This has always bothered me, I personally consider the edge of the continent to be the borders of Sahul, which also gives a convenient name to separate the continental landmass from the country and island. The complicated mess of Wallacea is realistically a collection of microcontinents jammed between Sahul and Afroeurasia. Similarly, the North American continental crust ends in the Cherskiy range in Russia, hence why the Bering sea was dry during the LGM (its epicontinental). Realistically, Afroeurasia and the Americas all form one gigantic supercontinent, which is evidenced by multiple groups which are spread across its 5 constituent landmasses but are excluded from the island continents and microcontinents.
Definitely a good way of thinking about things. One of my first videos that got traction on this channel was about the Bering Strait - I think it's a pretty cool and underappreciated bit of geography.
Australia has shrunk since it gave independence to its colonies, however as Australia extends to the South Pole it’s the second largest country on earth.
It all ends in tears.
thank you for the Tasmania love even Australians don't recognise it as a state
As a Perth resident most of us here recognize Tassie as a state - since we ran out of insults for South Australia. Jokes aside would love to travel down there, got some of the most beautiful views in Australia.
Drawing the line at Lombok would exclude Bali from the list making it invalid. There's enough of us there at any given moment to make it count from a bibliographical perspective.
Cool!
Thanks!
um... did anyone notice waltzing Matilda at the end
The Moluccas are culturally part of Melanesia, because the indigenous peoples there have historically been Papuan. Nowadays, most Moluccans are descended from a combination of Melanesian and Austronesian ancestors, so they could be considered the westernmost archipelago of Oceania.
Cool! That would make sense culturally speaking.
This leaves the question. Is Australia technically a transcontinental country due to the fact that the Christmas Island’s (owned by Australia) is in Asia.
If we take this a step further… Australia was apart of Antarctica last, so that could mean that Australia COULD consist of two continents.
…I could be wrong with the Antarctica thing, but I just thought it would be fun to think about.
You didn't mention the Australian Arctic territory
It ends where I say it ends
But nobody ever ask how is Australia 😢
Well now that you mention it, how is Australia?
Why is Australia?
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@@SignoreGalileiwe are bad
Who is Australia