I was always taught there were seven continents, Australia being one of them. However, I've been doing this long enough to know many of my international viewers might've been taught something else; that Australia is an island within the continent of Oceania. This has in turn generated a lot of confusion surround Australia and its status as a landmass. Of course as we all know, these terms are meaningless, which is why lately we've been using biogeographic realms instead. I hope by using these alternative units for dividing the earth, we might finally get to an answer as to whether Australia is an island!

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https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Book...

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https://link.springer.com/article/10....

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art....

https://www.science.org.au/curious/ea....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeog...

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https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...


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