Australia

the Australian continent (consisting of the Australian mainland, Tasmania, New Guinea and the intervening islands)

Area

8,468,300 square kilometres

Births

▶ Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Kelly Clarkson, Kylie Minogue, Leighton Meester,  …

Cate Blanchett, Portia de Rossi, Sam Worthington, Mark David Chapman, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Bana, Isabel Lucas, Steve Irwin, Jesse Jane, Miranda Kerr, Roger Moore, Flea, Eddie Fatu, Ian Thorpe, Mia Wasikowska, Ned Kelly, Simon Baker, Jesse Spencer, Nick Cave, Errol Flynn, Gemma Ward, Samantha Fox, Yvonne Strahovski, George Lazenby, Teresa Palmer, Dannii Minogue, Emily Browning, Rose Byrne, Kevin Rudd, Stephanie Rice, Julian McMahon, Deborra-Lee Furness, Timothy Treadwell, Bill Paxton, Bille Brown, Schapelle Corby, Emilie de Ravin, Elle Macpherson, Greg Norman, Lleyton Hewitt, Anna Torv, Sia Furler, Melissa George, Toni Collette, Baz Luhrmann, Nathan Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Harry Kewell, John Howard, Donald Bradman, Chris Lilley, Tahyna Tozzi, Sam Sparro, Paul Hogan, Phil Rudd, David Wenham, Ryan Kwanten, Abbie Cornish, Rick Springfield, Radha Mitchell, Larry Hagman, Claudia Black, Costas Mandylor, Ricky Ponting, Germaine Greer, Townes Van Zandt, Kate Capshaw, Rod Laver, Rachael Taylor, Rachel Griffiths, Shane Warne, Shane Warne, Wade Robson, Tim Cahill, Jacinda Barrett, George Eads, Cathy Freeman, Alex O'Loughlin, Anthony LaPaglia, Ben Lee, Luke Ford, Megan Gale, Bindi Irwin, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Chris Hemsworth, Cassandra Harris, Bug Hall, Rolf Harris, Laura Robson, Poppy Montgomery, Adam Garcia, Miranda Otto, Missy Higgins, Jason Moran, Caitlin Stasey, Barry Humphries, Carl Williams, Eamon Sullivan, Daniel Johns, Mark Philippoussis, Indiana Evans, Jason Donovan, Grant Hackett, Keisha Castle-Hughes, John Noble, Trey Anastasio, Anne Curtis, Peta Wilson, Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, Nick Vujicic, Helen Reddy, Gough Whitlam, Carl Williams, Prince Albert Victor, Claire Holt, Mary, Rove McManus, Mark Webber, Kym Valentine, James Bourne, Kate Ritchie, Ron Mueck, Mark Viduka, Patrick Rafter, Leigh Whannell, Harold Holt, Phoebe Tonkin, Hunter Tylo, Tal Wilkenfeld, Martin Bryant, Tim Minchin, Matthew Mitcham, Michael Johns, Andrew Bogut, Roger Miller, Martin Bashir, James Clavell, David Hicks, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chopper Read, Big Lurch, Pauline Hanson, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Merle Oberon, Rebecca Rigg, Ornette Coleman, Peter Allen, Alice Burdeu, Todd Lasance, Paul Keating, Lachy Hulme, Robert Menzies, Jason Ellis, Jodi Gordon, Fess Parker, Rob Dougan, Tessa James, Tim Wakefield, Judy Davis, Bob Hawke, Richard Roxburgh, Jessica Gomes, Lincoln Lewis, Bryan Brown, Troye Sivan, Christopher Dale Flannery, Jodie Moore, Richard Farleigh, Peter Weir, Scott McNeil, Jessica Tovey, Turner Gill, Mark Priestley, Bill Henson, Banjo Paterson, Paul O'Brien, Jonathan LaPaglia, Sarah Wynter, David Helfgott, Mark Bosnich, Terence Tao, Diane Cilento, Catherine Sutherland, Betty Buckley, Hamish Blake, Krystal Forscutt, Tommy Emmanuel, Lucas Neill, Chris Egan, Chris Egan, Jonathan Hyde, John Torode, Glenn McGrath, Stephanie McIntosh

Location

Earth

Location of

▶ Australia; Sydney; Melbourne; Papua New Guinea; Perth;  …

Canberra; Brisbane; Adelaide; Darwin; Hobart; Heard and McDonald Islands; Townsville; Alice Springs; Coral Sea; Launceston; Broome; Wollongong; Geelong; Fremantle; Mackay; Ballarat; Mount Isa; Rockhampton; Ashmore and Cartier Islands; Bendigo; Albany; Albury; Bunbury; Tamworth; Geraldton; Orange; Coffs Harbour; Bundaberg; Ipswich; Esperance; Frankston; Mount Gambier; Lismore; Griffith; Gladstone; Hervey Bay; Queanbeyan; Portland; Shepparton; Port Augusta; Warrnambool; Goulburn; Whyalla; Flying Fish Cove; Port Lincoln; Grafton; City of Bankstown; Gosford; Wodonga; Maitland; Burnie; Port Pirie; Maryborough; Cessnock; Pago Pago, American Samoa; Nowra; Victor Harbour; Taree; Castlemaine; Werribee; Charters Towers; Ararat; Wangaratta; Bairnsdale; Swan Hill; Maryborough; Cairns; Shoalhaven; City of Cessnock; A R Fruit & Veg; A M R S Footwear; A M Paints & Hardware; A K & M L Singhal; A J K; A J Electronics; A I Food & Wine; A & H Brass, London; A A Property Services; 99 Dry Cleaners, London; 3 Store, London; 2nd Time Around; 1st Choice Cakes; Botany Bay; Armidale; West Island; Samoan Time region; the Australian Eastern Standard Time region; the Central Standard Time region; Baker Island Time region; New Guinea

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)

Deaths

▶ Whitney Houston, Steve Irwin, Ned Kelly, Michael Hutchence, Donald Bradman,  …

Fred Perry, Paul Vario, Jason Moran, Alphonse Gangitano, Harold Holt, Andrew Veniamin, Robert Menzies, Ramakrishna, Lois Maxwell, Mark Priestley, Tony Hancock, Banjo Paterson, Kerry Packer, Moran family, Edmund Barton, Ronald Fisher, Belinda Emmett, Lewis Moran, Henry Lawson, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Fred Hollows, Albert Namatjira, Bob Wills, Nellie Melba, Mario Condello, Eddie Mabo, Nevil Shute, Graham Kinniburgh, John Monash, Paul Hester, Douglas Mawson, Richard Marsland, Patrick White, Richard Pratt, Leonard Siffleet, Victor Chang, John Campbell Ross, Alfred Deakin, Annette Kellerman, Nik Radev, John Curtin, Jessie Jacobs, William McMahon, Elizabeth Kenny, Sunday Reed, Jason Raize, Lewis Caine, Truganini, Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Charles Perkins, Anna Wood, Ben Chifley, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Keith Miller, Charmaine Dragun, Henry Parkes, Gary Olsen, Ronald Ryan, Megan Connolly, Thomas Blamey, Patrick Cranshaw, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Billy Hughes, Victor Peirce, Victor Peirce, Billy Thorpe, John Gorton, Graham Kennedy, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Daniel Pollock, Tom Roberts, George Moore, Edward Dunlop, Slim Dusty, Peter Lalor, Charles Tingwell, Rene Rivkin, Mary MacKillop, Michael Pate, Judith Wright, Mark Oliphant, Ashley Cooper, Jane McGrath, Kerryn McCann, Thomas Playford IV, Billy Sing, John Batman, John Flynn, Eddie Leonski, John McEwen, John Brack, Joseph Lyons, John Kerr, Leonard Fraser, David Unaipon, Albert Jacka, Isaac Isaacs, Caroline Grills, Harry Seidler, John Ilhan, Deryck Guyler, Morris West, Ringer Edwards, Frank Forde, Gwen Harwood, Taman Shud Case, Squizzy Taylor, Vere Gordon Childe, Ludwig Leichhardt, Alec Campbell, Anne Haddy, Patrick Wymark, Bob Collins, Bill O'Reilly, Winifred Atwell, John Meillon, Anna Russell, Arthur Upfield, Ben Hollioake, Jack Lang, Reg Evans, Edward Hargraves, Neville Bonner, Harold Larwood, Madeleine Smith, Joseph Cook, Roy Redgrave, Chris Mainwaring, Howard Arkley, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Pro Hart, Chips Rafferty, Colin Thiele, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, Don Dunstan, Andrew Watson, Fred Williams, Moondyne Joe, Captain Moonlight, Liang Yusheng, Mary Wade, David McComb, Don Lane, David Whitfield, Daisy Bates, Laurence Naismith, Dorothy Porter, Clinton Grybas, Sam, Robert Holmes à Court, Clive Caldwell, Brian Clay, David Hookes, William Ellis Newton, David Stove, Peter Jackson, Derek Freeman, Jack Dyer, Tom Wills, Elizabeth Jolley, A. O. Neville, Richard Carleton, Samuel Griffith, E. Beatrice Riley, Henry William Murray, Joy Hester, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Edward Irving, Ernie Bourne, Leslie Morshead, Jack Davis, Lang Hancock, Louisa Lawson, Frank Packer, William Light, A. Bertram Chandler, Robert Askin, Stevie Plunder, Ruth Cracknell, Trevor Kent, Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia, Martin Cash, H. V. Evatt, Emily Kngwarreye, Lindsay Thompson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Bill Woodfull, Adela Pankhurst, Clive Churchill, John Glover, Michael Dwyer, Hamilton Hume, Sheila Florance, Joan Lindsay, John Coleman

Coordinates

26°00'00"S, 141°00'00"E

Class

▶ continent, traditional continent, landscape feature, geographical area of significant size, geological continent,  …

continent, geographical area that is the area served by an organisation, geographical area

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Australia_%28continent%29

Rare Terms

▶ "the australia", "the australia continent", "australia continent", "the greater australia", "greater australia",  …

"the australia plate", "australia plate", "the australinea", "the sahulland", "sahulland", "the sahul", "the meganesia", "the australo-papuan", "australo-papuan", "the australia (continent)", "sahul", "australinea", "australia"

Freebase ID

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Possible Languages

English

Freebase Primary MID

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