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Does the island known as mainland Australia have a proper name?
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∙ 13y ago
Australia is its proper name and it is not an island, but a continent.
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What state in Australia occupies an island?
Tasmania, also known informally as the 'Apple Isle'.
Of which group of islands are Cape Barren Island and Flinders Island a part?
Cape Barren island and Flinders Island are part of the archipelago known as the Furneaux Group. This group is believed to be what is left of the original land bridge by which Tasmania was once joined to the mainland of Australia.
What iw the large island country off southern coast of Australia?
The island and country which lies about 2000 km southeast of Australia is New Zealand. The island of Tasmania lies very much closer, positioned south of the eastern half of the mainland. Tasmania is not a separate country, but is one of Australia's states.
What body of water separates Tasmania and the Australian mainland?
Bass Strait is the body of water which separates the island state of Tasmania from the mainland state of Victoria in Australia. It is named after explorer George Bass who determined conclusively that Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) was an island.
What island state is 300 miles south of the city of Melbourne Australia?
There is no island 300 miles south of Melbourne, Australia. The nearest any island comes to being in this location is Tasmania, Australia's island state. The distance from Tasmania to the closest point on the Victorian mainland is around 240 km, which is about 150 miles.
What is the island underneath Australia?
The largest island off the coast of the state of South Australia is Kangaroo Island.If the questions refers to the island south of southernAustralia, this is the island state of Tasmania.
What is the largest Orkney Island?
Mainland (sometimes known as Pomona) is the biggest of the Orkney Islands.
What separates Tasmania and Australia?
There is no such sea as the "Tasmania sea".The Tasman Sea separates the two countries of Australia and New Zealand.If the question refers to the body of water between the Australian mainland and its island state of Tasmania, the body of water is known as Bass Strait.
What continent is Australia in?
Australia is the name of both the continent and the country.
The strait also separates the continental mainland from the large island what land of fire?
The strait referred to is the Strait of Magellan. It separates the continental mainland of South America from the large island of Tierra del Fuego, often known as the "Land of Fire."
What body of land is an island and a continent?
Australia and Antarctica are known as the island continents.
What are twocontinents that also fit in the definition of an island?
Australia and Antarctica are known as the island continents.
