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Australasia
Australasia
, a
region
of
Oceania
, comprises
Australia
,
New Zealand
, the island of
New Guinea
, and neighbouring
islands
in the
Pacific Ocean
.
Charles de Brosses
coined the term (as French
Australasie
) in
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes
(1756). He derived it from the
Latin
for "south of
Asia
" and differentiated the area from
Polynesia
(to the east) and the southeast Pacific (
Magellanica
). The bulk of Australasia sits on the
Indo-Australian Plate
, together with
India
.
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