North Australia

American  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• North Australian adjective

Example Sentences

Gallagher's comments came about a week after a South Korean court dismissed a case in which two Indigenous Australian groups sought to block South Korea's export credit agencies from providing loans for a pipeline for the $3.6 billion Barossa project Santos is developing off north Australia.

From Reuters

“It was just fires running wild across huge tracts of north Australia that nobody was doing anything about.”

From The Guardian

“Generally by the fifth and invariably by the sixth generation, all native characteristics of the Australian Aborigine are eradicated,” Cecil Evelyn Cook, the “chief protector of Aborigines” in North Australia, said in 1933.

From Washington Post

“There is an increased possibility of a dry and warm end to the year. It also raises the risk of heat waves and bushfire weather in the south, but reduces the risk of tropical cyclone activity in the north,” Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said in an emailed statement.

From Reuters

Thanks to a stable atmosphere, largely unobstructed views and dark nights, the viewing way out in the dusty wilds of north Australia are rivaled by little else.

From Washington Times