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North Australia

American  

noun

  1. a former division of Australia; now part of the Northern Territory.


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Darwin, in barren North Australia, is as yet little more than a fueling station.

From Time Magazine Archive

They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Common in the interior and in North Australia.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall

The natives of North Australia, the most primitive people of whom we have any knowledge, use logs, singly or lashed together with vines, to cross rivers and arms of the sea.

From Healthful Sports for Boys by Rochefort, Alfred

When in 1858 William E. Gladstone sought to establish a new colony to be known as North Australia, he opened a fresh field for Irish initiative.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

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