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Australasia

aust·ra·la·sia

UK/ˌɒstɹəˈleɪʒə/ US/ˌɔstɹəˈlæɪʒɐ/ uncommon

noun

1.

Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

Origin

Borrowed from French Australasie, coined by French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses in 1756, from the Latin for “south of Asia”. By surface analysis, Austral- + Asia.

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