Australasia

n. A'asia, region that comprises Australia and New Zealand together with New Guinea and islands of the South Pacific which are in the vicinity; Oceania

This article is about the geographical term. For the Pelican album, see Australasia (album). Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses 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). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast).
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Noun
1. Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific
(hypernym) archipelago
(part-holonym) Pacific, Pacific Ocean

n. Australasia, geographical region consisting of the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean (including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, etc.)

AUSTRALASIA