
Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand,
the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific
Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French Australasie)
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).
The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together
with India.
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