a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony | a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide |
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean | Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) |
| British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957) |