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    1 year ago

    Everyone in the U.S. calls it Australia that I know, some other countries do as well.

    Wikipedia lists it as Australia for us as well. (All textbooks did here)

    The reasoning we were taught is that Continents were large land masses, which Oceania unlike the other 6, isn’t really a landmass so much, rather just the name of the tectonic plate.