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Australia, a country located in the southern hemisphere. Lying between the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Oceania is the continent and occupies a large part of the continent too. Neighbours Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Capital of Canberra, the largest city is Sydney.

Australia 8,617,930 sq km land, waters, for a total of 80,920 sq km 8,686,850 km ² was established in a field. There is no border of any country. There are only around 25,760 kilometers of coastline.
Latin name of south Australia, south of the meaning of the word is derived from Australis. Based on the time of the Roman civilization, a country south of unknown meaning (terra australis incognita) in a similar location, also shows that the geography of the Middle Ages. However, this information does not include any information known to a continent. Latin Terra Australis Incognita The term, in the south (Australis) Unknown (Incognita) part of Earth (Terra) means.

14 May 1606, Pedro Fernandes de Queiros Vanuatu’ya to set foot on the South Pole has claimed all the land ownership belongs to the Kingdom of Spain and the continent del Espiritu Santo in the form of Austrialía named.

Australische Dutch word, by Batavia’daki Flemenkler, before the year 1638, used to name the newly discovered in the south. “Australia” the first use of the word in the English language, written in 1692 Les Aventures de Jacques Gabriel de Foigny’nin Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voyage de la Terre French Austral’s novel, the translation was in 1693. [1]

Later, 1765’te, Alexander Dalrymple, this word, Luis de Torres 1606 Váez the southern coast of New Guinea used a translating into English the book describes his journey. Dalrymple, also the word Australia, An Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (1771) now used to describe the work of all the Oceania region. 1793’de George Shaw and Sir James Smith, in the large island, a large continent, Australia, Australasia and the identification of New Holland, Zoology and Botany of New Holland has published his work.

The name of the Australian continent by ship and wandering around the first known human, explorer Matthew Flinders A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814) has become popular with the work. Despite its title reflected the view of Britain, Australia Flinders in his work and this name is the name used was a term which was widely read. Governor Lachlan Macquarie in New South Wales, written messages, sent to England later used that name. Macquarie in 1817 formally proposed the adoption of this name and the Kingdom of 1824’de Kingdom, the continent was officially approved in Australia under the name recognition of

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