noun
- A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20, 000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony.
- synonyms: Commonwealth of Australia
- The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. .
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