Is There a Continent Called Australasia?

been divided into four parts: Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia....… Asia, the world's largest and most diverse continent.

Is the continent called Australia or Australasia?

Two Merriam-Webster dictionaries online (Collegiate and Unabridged) define Australasia as "Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia". The American Heritage Dictionary online recognizes two senses in use: one more precise, being similar to the aforementioned senses, and the other broader, loosely covering all of Oceania.

Is Australasia and Oceania the same thing?

Australasia is the smallest continent. It includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and some of the small islands in between. ... The region known as Oceania includes thousands of tiny islands that are not part of any continent, spread out over a vast area of the Pacific Ocean.