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Australasia

thumb|upright=1.25|Australia's concept of Australasia, which includes Australia, New Zealand and, in this case, Melanesia

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Australasia is a geographical region that includes Australia, New Zealand, and nearby island groups like Melanesia. It's a useful term for understanding the cultural, political, and economic connections between these countries and territories in the southwestern Pacific.

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261,122 papers

Australasia.ReviewGlobal heart · 2018DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2018.09.518
Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.Lancet (London, England) · 2020GBD Chronic Kidney Disease CollaborationDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30045-3
Worldwide incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in the 21st century: a systematic review of population-based studies.Lancet (London, England) · 2017Ng SC, Shi HY, Hamidi N et al.DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32448-0
Exotic Animal Practice in Australasia.ReviewThe veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice · 2024Baron HR, Haberfield JDOI: 10.1016/j.cvex.2024.03.004
Is Australasia Ready for Sonographer-Led Stress Echocardiography?Heart, lung & circulation · 2021Forshaw A, Younger JF, Coffey S et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2021.03.002
Factor Inhibitor Testing: An Update from Australasia/Asia-Pacific.ReviewSeminars in thrombosis and hemostasis · 2025Favaloro EJ, Arunachalam SDOI: 10.1055/a-2546-0441
Point-of-Care Ultrasound Educational Development in Australasia: A Scoping Review.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2023Cormack CJ, Childs J, Kent FDOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.02.011
Vascular Surgery in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia).European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery · 2021Mohan IV, Khashram M, Fitridge RDOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2021.06.020

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: region
Part of: Oceania
Demonym: Australasian
Country: France
Body of water: Pacific Ocean
Shares border with: Southeast Asia

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described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Commons category: Australasia
topic's main category: Category:Australasia
different from: Austrasia
native label: Australasia

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thumb|upright=1.25|Australia's concept of Australasia, which includes Australia, New Zealand and, in this case, Melanesia

Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologically, where the term covers several slightly different but related regions.

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