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AUSTRALASIA, a term used by English geographers in ft sense nearly synonymous with the Oceania of continental writer*. It thus comprises all the insular groups which extend almost continuously from the south-eastern extremity of Asia to more than half-way acro ...

AUSTRIA. (Ger. OsterreicK), a country of central Europe, bounded E. by Russia and Rumania, S. by Hungary, the Adriatic Sea and Italy, W. by Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the German empire (Bavaria), and N. by the German empire (Saxony and Prussia) and Russia.

ASTROPALIA (classical A sly polar*), an island, with good harbours, in the south part of the Aegean, situated in 36-5° N. and immediately west of 16-5° E. It was colonized by Megara, and its constitution and buildings arc known from numerous inscriptions. The

... eld in South Africa, New Zealand and the different states of Australia. For the Australasian championships New Zealand joins with Australia. The organization of university sports in America differs from that at Oxford and Cambridge, where there is no official ...

... s. The late Eocene flora of Europe was very similar to its descendant in modern Australasia. See A. de Lapparent, Trails de geologic, vol. iii. (5th ed., 1906), which contains a good general account of the period, with numerous references to original papers. A ...

... der the proposal for laying a telegraph cable between British North America and Australasia. The report of the committee, which is dated January 1897, was presented to parliament in April 1899, and dealt with the practicability of the project, the route, the c ...