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nouna 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
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nounthe smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Oceanpart of:
Definition that contains australia
- white Australian writer (1912-1990)
- court Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)
- bruce Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)
- norman Australian golfer (born in 1955)
- gibson Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)
- hazel Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
- whistler Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
- sutherland Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)
- wilkins Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)
- snapper Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots