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Area
Contains Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
Population 43500000


Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast).

Australasia can also be regarded by some experts as a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Australia and New Zealand are the largest countries in this region.


See also Oceania, regarded by us as a separate continental region.


OER in Australasia: Map

Total number of Open Education Initiatives in Australasia on Wednesday, 11 December 2024 at 10:21 = 22 , of which:

  • 19 are MOOC
  • 3 are OER



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For a tabulation of OER initiatives in Australasia see Open Education Initiatives in Australasia



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