australasia

Definition of Australasia in English :

1. australasia

Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Australasia

noun

1.

Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the S Pacific Ocean

2.

(loosely) the whole of Oceania

1.

generally, the islands of the SW Pacific

2.

Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Malay Archipelago, and all islands south of the equator and between E longitudes 100 and 180

3.

Oceania

1. The islands of the southern Pacific Ocean, including Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.

2. Broadly, all of Oceania.