Threw me for loop for sure. I found something that said that Oceania was renamed Southern in I would guess it was at the same time that they started calling Australia by Oceania they must just be trying to mess with us at least pick a new name and leave the oceans the same instead of moving it! New Zealand is not on the same continental shelf and so is not part of the continent of Australia but is part of the submerged continent Zealandia.
Zealandia and Australia together are part of the wider region known as Oceania or Australasia. Except in LOST. Oceanic Airlines. The term "Oceania" was coined in by French explorer Dumont d'Urville.
The term is used today in many languages to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate Pacific islands , [2] [3] [4] and is one of eight terrestrial ecozones. The boundaries of Oceania are defined in a number of ways.
Our talking globe refers to the entire south Pacific island area as Oceania. That whole south ocean thing kind of bugs me though - there are some breaking points between other oceans but I just don't see it when they delineate a "southern" ocean. We went through an Australasia phase with some of our maps. Apparently that didn't catch on for map making and labeling so it is all Oceania now?
Last year when my dd was in the local National Geographic Bee, the participants were told that the continent is Australia, and Oceania would be considered an incorrect answer. The continent is Australia, but in Britain, the region, not the continent, is named in the continent lists.
Funny, huh? I learned Oceania in school in the early s. We were told that it was the continent name for Australia and New Zealand and that Australia was the name of the country. I have been confused ever since whenever I heard people refer to Australia as the continent and I was surprised by your post. I always heard that Australia, New Zealand, and the Polynesian islands were all part of the continent of "Oceania".
I was thinking of this the other day when I read the post about high school kids not knowing the oceans and continents. They delineate a Southern Ocean because the southern part of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans all behave consistently and have a similar current and other attributes it makes sense to them to refer to it as the Southern Ocean instead of always saying "in the southern Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans Terri, Australia has recognised the Southern Ocean for a while, but apparently it has only recently been recognised by the rest of the world so don't worry if you didn't know the term - you didn't forget anything crucial!
Don't know where I read that, sorry! Or perhaps, I read it somewhere and thought "oh that's interesting, a non-Aus source referring to Southern Ocean. Hmm, I'm a bit vague today! In school, back in the dark ages, we were taught that Australia was both the smallest continent and the largest island.
New Zealand and the other countries weren't part of that definition. I didn't hear the term "Oceania" until I was in my 20s and it was a term used by some Europeans for the whole region - much in the same way that Singapore is part of Asia. I think it is a bit like how Pluto? Ideas change and so do definitions. Makes it hard! I just watched the other night. Important flowering plants native to Australia and Oceania include the jacaranda, hibiscus, pohutukawa, and kowhai.
Other indigenous trees include the breadfruit, eucalyptus, and banyan. Birds are very common in Australia and Oceania because they are one of the few animals mobile enough to move from island to island. There are more than endemic bird species in Australia and Oceania, including many seabirds. Many flightless birds, such as emus, kiwis, cassowaries, wekas, and takahes, are native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand. The Pacific Islands have more than 25 species of birds of paradise, which exhibit colorful plumage.
Lizard species include the goanna, skink, and bearded dragon. Australia and Oceania has more than a hundred different species of fruit bats. The few native land animals in Australia and Oceania are unusual. Australia and Oceania is the only place in the world that is home to monotreme s—mammals that lay eggs.
All monotremes are native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. There are only five living species: the duckbill platypus and four species of echidna. Many of the most familiar animals native to Australia and Oceania are marsupial s, including the koala, kangaroo, and wallaby. Marsupials are mammals that carry their newborn young in a pouch. Almost 70 percent of the marsupials on Earth are native to Oceania. The rest are native to the Americas.
In Australia and Oceania, marsupials did not face threats or competition from large predator s such as lions, tigers, or bears. In the Americas, marsupials such as possums are much smaller. Marine Flora and Fauna The marine environment is an important and influential physical region in Australia and Oceania.
Marine realm s are large ocean regions where animal and plant life are similar because of shared environmental and evolutionary factors. The Temperate Australasia realm includes the seas surrounding the southern half of Australia and the islands of New Zealand. Its cold, nutrient -rich waters support a diversity of plants and fish that seabirds feed on. These seabirds include different species of albatross, petrel, and shearwater, as well as the Australasian gannet and rockhopper penguin.
The Great Barrier Reef is home to 30 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises; six species of sea turtles; species of birds; and more than 1, species of fish. The New Caledonia Barrier Reef is home to species of sponges, 5, species of mollusks, 5, species of crustaceans, and at least 1, species of fish.
The Eastern Indo-Pacific realm surrounds the tropical islands of the central Pacific Ocean, extending from the Marshall Islands through central and southeastern Polynesia. Like the Central Indo-Pacific realm, this realm is also known for its tropical coral formations. A variety of whale, tortoise, and fish species also inhabit this realm. Australia and Oceania is a continent made up of thousands of islands throughout the South Pacific Ocean.
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