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Australia

Also Known As New Holland Historical name only: applied by Dutch cartographers from 1644, used on most European maps into the early 19th century, and effectively out of use by the 1850s after Matthew Flinders' proposal of Australia was adopted (Admiralty, 1824). Not a name in current use.

The smallest of the seven continents and the only one occupied by a single nation, lying entirely within the Southern Hemisphere between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its interior is dominated by arid and semi-arid terrain known collectively as the outback, ringed by a narrower band of fertile coastal land where most of the population lives. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Area (sq km)
7,688,287 1
Country-level figure (this atlas's convention for the continent of Australia excludes New Guinea; see open question is-australia-alone-or-oceania-the-seventh-continent). The Sahul-inclusive figure on the australia-continent-wikipedia page (8,600,000 km2) is a different, wider definition.
Population
27,801,023 1
December 2025 estimate, country-level figure (see area-sq-km note on this atlas's continent convention).
Highest Point
Mount Kosciuszko 2
The highest point of the Australian mainland under the Bass list convention. Reinhold Messner's rival list instead names Puncak Jaya in New Guinea (4,884 m) as Australia/Oceania's representative summit; see the recorded dissent on this fact.
Highest Elevation (m)
2228 2
Lowest Point
Lake Eyre 3
Country Count
1 4
Counts the continent's own resident sovereign state, Australia, only. When Oceania rather than the Australian mainland is treated as the seventh continent, the region covers many more sovereign Pacific island states; see the recorded open question on this entity.
Tectonic Plate Context
Indo-Australian Plate 4
Australia

Countries

Australia

Australia

Federated States of Micronesia

Australia

Fiji

Australia

Kiribati

Australia

Marshall Islands

Australia

Nauru

Australia

New Zealand

Australia

Palau

Australia

Papua New Guinea

Australia

Samoa

Australia

Solomon Islands

Australia

Tonga

Australia

Tuvalu

Australia

Vanuatu

Australia

Territories

American Samoa

Australia

Cook Islands

Australia

French Polynesia

Australia

Guam

Australia

New Caledonia

Australia

Niue

Australia

Northern Mariana Islands

Australia

Wallis and Futuna

Australia

Regions

Australasia

Australia

Australasian realm

Australia

Malay Archipelago

Australia

Melanesia

Australia

Micronesia

Australia

Oceania

Australia

Polynesia

Australia

The Indian Ocean Rim

Australia

The Pacific Rim

Australia

The South Pacific

Australia

Wallacea

Australia

Wheatbelt (Western Australia)

Australia
FAQs

What is the smallest continent?

Australia, the smallest of the seven traditional continents.

Australia is the smallest of the seven traditional continents and the only one occupied by a single sovereign nation. Its area of roughly 7.69 million square kilometres is smaller than every other continent, including Europe. When the wider region of Oceania is treated as the seventh continent instead of the Australian mainland alone, a different and much larger area is being measured; see the open question recorded on this entity.
Connections

Associated With

Antarctica, Continents

Australia and Antarctica were joined within the supercontinent Gondwana. Rifting between them began around 85 million years ago and progressed from west to east; the two continents finally separated south of Tasmania by about 45 million years ago, opening the Tasman Seaway between them.

Source United States Geological Survey
Oceania, Regions
Source Australia (continent) (Wikipedia)
The Indian Ocean, Bodies of Water

This source names both oceans directly: Australia lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Source Geography of Australia (Wikipedia)
The Pacific Ocean, Bodies of Water

This source names Australia directly: "Ocean, and bounded by Asia and Australia to the west and the Americas to the east."

Source National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The Pacific Ocean, Bodies of Water

This source names both oceans directly: Australia lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Source Geography of Australia (Wikipedia)

Demonstrates

El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Physical Processes
Source El Nino-Southern Oscillation (Wikipedia)

Open Questions

Is Australia alone, or the wider region of Oceania, the seventh continent?, Open Questions
Source Continent (Wikipedia)
Is Zealandia, the largely submerged landmass in the southwest Pacific, an eighth continent?, Open Questions
Source Zealandia (Wikipedia)
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Manuka Honey

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Pie Floater

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Australia Telescope Compact Array

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Australian Astronomical Observatory

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Australian National University

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Worrorran

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Quote, Lead sentence 1
The Worrorran (Wororan) languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia.
Yam languages

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Yandruwandha language

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Yankunytjatjara dialect

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Yarli language

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Yele

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Yellow River languages

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Yidiny language

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Yindjibarndi language

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Yirram languages

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Quote, Lead sentence 1
The Yirram or Jaminjungan languages, also known as Western Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Yuat

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Yuin-Kuric languages

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Yukulta language

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ANZUS

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Australian Law

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Constitution of Australia

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Law of Tonga

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Abalone

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Acacia

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Acrochordidae

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Agamidae

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Alaudidae

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Artamidae

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Arumberia

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Asparagaceae

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Atrichornithidae

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Australian Clownfish

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Australian grayling

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Australian Land Hermit Crab

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Australian Tree Fern

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Australoricus

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Berberidopsidales

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Sources
1. Australia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead paragraph, land area sentence
    It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world
  • Infobox, Population (December 2025 estimate)
    27,801,023 (2025 (December) estimate)
  • Home To: Australia
View the Source
2. Seven Summits (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationArticle text
Quote, Article text
The Great Dividing Range runs along most of eastern Australia, dividing the central lowlands from the eastern highlands. At 2,228 m (7,310 ft), Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain on the mainland.
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3. Lake Eyre (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Quote, Lead section
the lowest natural point in Australia, at approximately 15 m (49 ft) below sea level
View the Source
4. Australia (continent) (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • opening paragraph, continent size ranking
    Australia is the smallest of the seven traditional continents.
  • Geography section, plate description
    The continent primarily sits on the Indo-Australian Plate.
  • Lead section
    The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts as Sahul (, sə-HOOL), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres, near the Maritime Southeast Asia.
  • Lead paragraph, seven-continent classification
    Australia is the smallest of the seven traditional continents.
  • Associated With: Oceania, Introduction section
    Situated in the geographical region of Oceania, more specifically in the subregion of Australasia, Australia is the smallest of the seven traditional continents.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
  • britannica.com/place/Australia, main article body (Land section, extent and neighbouring seas paragraph)
    The Australian mainland extends from west to east for nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 km) and from Cape York Peninsula in the northeast to Wilsons Promontory in the southeast for nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km). To the south, Australian jurisdiction extends a further 310 miles (500 km) to the southern extremity of the island of Tasmania, and in the north it extends to the southern shores of Papua New Guinea. Australia is separated from Indonesia to the northwest by the Timor and Arafura seas, from Papua New Guinea to the northeast by the Coral Sea and the Torres Strait, from the Coral Sea Islands Territory by the Great Barrier Reef, from New Zealand to the southeast by the Tasman Sea, and from Antarctica in the far south by the Indian Ocean.
  • Home To: Uluru, Uluru/Ayers Rock
View the Source
The World Factbook
Central Intelligence AgencyAustralia, population summaryView the Source
National Geographic Atlas of the World
National Geographic Society, 2019World continents area table
Dutch Australian Cultural Centre
Dutch Australian Cultural CentreNew Holland to Australia: The Name Change
Quote, New Holland to Australia: The Name Change
The name New Holland (Hollandia Novae) appeared on maps depicting the continent of Australia after the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman charted the west coast of the continent in 1644. The name Australia gradually replaced New Holland in official and popular usage and had totally disappeared by the 1850s.
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Wikidata: Australia
Wikidata Q3960, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926); EntityTypeKey=continent disambiguates against the geography country entity of the same slug.View the Source
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationHome To: The Great Barrier ReefView the Source
United States Geological Survey
United States Geological SurveyAssociated With: AntarcticaView the Source
Micronesia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: MicronesiaView the Source
Geography of Australia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Associated With: The Pacific Ocean, Lead section
    Located in the Southern Hemisphere between the Indian and Pacific oceans, Australia's jurisdiction spreads across thousands of kilometres beyond the main landmass
  • Associated With: The Indian Ocean, Lead section
    Located in the Southern Hemisphere between the Indian and Pacific oceans, Australia's jurisdiction spreads across thousands of kilometres beyond the main landmass
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El Nino-Southern Oscillation (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationDemonstrates: El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Article text
Quote, Demonstrates: El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Article text
During El Niño events, the shift in rainfall away from the Western Pacific may mean that rainfall across Australia is reduced.
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Pacific Ocean (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Home To: The Pacific Ocean, Lead section, continents bounding the ocean
    is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east
  • Home To: The Pacific Ocean, Lead section, separates passage
    The Pacific separates Asia and Australia from the Americas.
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The Twelve Apostles (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: The Twelve Apostles, Lead section
Quote, Home To: The Twelve Apostles, Lead section
The Twelve Apostles are a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.
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Murray River (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Murray River, Lead section
Quote, Home To: Murray River, Lead section
a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river, spanning 2,508 km (1,558 mi).
View the Source
American Samoa (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: American Samoa, Lead section
Quote, Home To: American Samoa, Lead section
American Samoa is a self-governing, unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States located in the south Pacific Ocean, within the Polynesia subregion of Oceania.
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Cook Islands (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Cook Islands, Lead section
Quote, Home To: Cook Islands, Lead section
in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand
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French Polynesia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: French Polynesia, Lead section
Quote, Home To: French Polynesia, Lead section
islands and atolls stretching over more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean
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Guam (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Guam, Lead section
Quote, Home To: Guam, Lead section
Guam ( GWAHM; Chamorro: Guåhan [ˈɡʷɑhɑn]) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
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New Caledonia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: New Caledonia, Lead section
Quote, Home To: New Caledonia, Lead section
in the southwest Pacific Ocean, ... 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia
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Niue (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Niue, Geography section
Quote, Home To: Niue, Geography section
raised coral atoll in the southern Pacific Ocean
View the Source
Northern Mariana Islands (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Northern Mariana Islands, Geography section
Quote, Home To: Northern Mariana Islands, Geography section
an archipelago ... in the northwestern Pacific Ocean
View the Source
Wallis and Futuna (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Wallis and Futuna, Geography and climate section
Quote, Home To: Wallis and Futuna, Geography and climate section
in the South Pacific Ocean
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Wikidata: Lithgow
Home To: LithgowView the Source
Wikidata: Australia
  • Home To: Kakadu National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Ningaloo Marine Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Kosciuszko National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Port Campbell National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Coral Sea Marine Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Purnululu National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Blue Mountains National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Daintree National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Freycinet National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Grampians National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Karijini National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Litchfield National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Nitmiluk National Park, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Wilsons Promontory, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Western Sydney Parklands, Wikidata item for Australia, property P30 (continent)
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Wikidata: New Zealand
  • Home To: Fiordland National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Tongariro National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Abel Tasman National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Arthur's Pass National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Egmont National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Kahurangi National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Mount Aspiring National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Nelson Lakes National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Paparoa National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Rakiura National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Westland Tai Poutini National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
  • Home To: Whanganui National Park, Wikidata item for New Zealand, property P30 (continent)
View the Source
Wikidata: Kiribati
Home To: Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Wikidata item for Kiribati, property P30 (continent)View the Source
Wikidata: Tuvalu
Home To: Funafuti Conservation Area, Wikidata item for Tuvalu, property P30 (continent)View the Source
Wikidata: Fiji
Home To: Colo-i-Suva Forest Reserve, Wikidata item for Fiji, property P30 (continent)View the Source
Wikidata: Niue
Home To: Niue Nukutuluea Multiple-Use Marine Park, Wikidata item for Niue, property P30 (continent)View the Source
Palau National Marine Sanctuary (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Palau National Marine Sanctuary, Lead paragraph names Palau; continent follows from the atlas record for Palau
Quote, Home To: Palau National Marine Sanctuary, Lead paragraph names Palau; continent follows from the atlas record for Palau
Palau National Marine Sanctuary is a marine protected area in Palau
View the Source
Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park, Infobox location
Quote, Home To: Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park, Infobox location
location = South Australia ;
View the Source
New Guinea (Wikipedia)
Home To: New Guinea, Lead, second paragraph
Quote, Home To: New Guinea, Lead, second paragraph
though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf
View the Source
Australasian realm (Wikipedia)
Home To: Australasian realm, Lead
Quote, Home To: Australasian realm, Lead
The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua), and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccas (the Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku), and the islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timor, often known as the Lesser Sundas.
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Bushy Park (New Zealand) (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHome To: Bushy Park (New Zealand)
Quote, Home To: Bushy Park (New Zealand)
Bushy Park (also known as Bushy Park Tarapuruhi) is a native forest reserve and bird sanctuary located in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Adelaide Park Lands (Wikipedia)
Home To: Adelaide Park Lands
Quote, Home To: Adelaide Park Lands
The Adelaide Park Lands are a green belt forming a figure-eight configuration of open space on both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton, which encloses and separates the City of Adelaide area (including both the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide) from the surrounding suburbia of greater metropolitan Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.
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Wheatbelt (Western Australia) (Wikipedia)
Home To: Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
Quote, Home To: Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
The Wheatbelt is one of nine regions of Western Australia defined as administrative areas for the state's regional development, and a vernacular term for the area converted to agriculture during colonisation.
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Mata Utu (French pronunciation: [mata utu]; Wallisian: Matāʻutu, [mataːʔutu]) is the capital city of Wallis and Futuna, an overseas collectivity of France.
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Nouméa (Wikipedia)
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It is the largest Francophone city in Oceania.
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Faʼaʼā (Wikipedia)
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Faʼaʼā is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʼete in French Polynesia, an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Punaʻauiʻa is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʻete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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ʻĀrue is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Pīraʻe [piːraʔe] is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʻete in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Māhina is a commune in the north of Tahiti in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Dumbéa (/dʌm.beɪ.ə/; French: [dœ̃bea] ; Dumbea: [ɳɖùmbea]) is a commune in the suburbs of Greater Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Païta (French: [pajta], Dumbea: Pweyta) is a commune in the suburbs of Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Papeete (Tahitian: Papeʻete, pronounced [pa.pe.ʔe.te]) is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic located in the Pacific Ocean.
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Avarua (meaning "two harbours" in Māori) is a district and township in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands.
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Alofi is the capital of the island nation of Niue.
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Uturoa is a commune located in Ra'iātea, the largest island of the Îles Sous le Vent (Leeward Islands) in French Polynesia, in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Vaitape is the largest city of Bora Bora Island in French Polynesia.
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United Nations M49 Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Geoscheme)
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New Caledonia 540 NCL
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Open Questions (2 open questions)
Is Australia alone, or the wider region of Oceania, the seventh continent?

Geographers use the term Oceania for a region that includes the continent of Australia together with most of the Pacific island countries and territories, and the seven-continent model's own seventh slot is written by some sources as "Australia/Oceania", treating the two labels as interchangeable. Continents themselves are identified by convention rather than by any strict criterion, so whether the seventh continent is the single-nation Australian landmass or the wider multi-nation Oceania region is a live difference in convention, not a factual dispute with a settled answer.

What would resolve this A single, universally adopted convention for what counts as a continent, which does not currently exist; different countries' school curricula and different atlases already choose differently (a six-continent "Australia/Oceania" model is taught in parts of Europe, a seven-continent model naming Australia alone elsewhere).
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Is Zealandia, the largely submerged landmass in the southwest Pacific, an eighth continent?

In 2017 a team of eleven geologists from New Zealand, New Caledonia and Australia concluded that Zealandia, a roughly 4.9 million square kilometre mass of continental crust of which about 94 percent lies underwater, meets every geological criterion for a continent, a case geologist Nick Mortimer argued would have been settled long ago if the crust were not submerged. The idea was first proposed by Bruce Luyendyk in 1995. It has been described variously as a submerged continent, a continental fragment and a microcontinent, and has not been adopted as a standard eighth continent in the conventional lists this atlas otherwise follows.

What would resolve this A shift in the standard continent count that the world's atlases, geography curricula and geological bodies converge on adopting; the underlying geology is not seriously disputed, only whether the classification "continent" is extended to a landmass this submerged.
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Dissenting Readings (1 dissenting reading)
Highest Point

Messner's own list of the Seven Summits replaces Mount Kosciuszko, the highest point of the Australian mainland alone, with Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) in New Guinea at 4,884 m, arguing that the Australian continent is properly understood to include New Guinea, which shares the same Sahul continental shelf. Kosciuszko remains the standard Bass-list answer and the figure this entity records as its primary highest-point fact; Messner's reading is a real, named rival position, not an error.

A dissenting reading, from Reinhold MessnerSeven Summits (Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation

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