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

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North Australia

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In January, 1847, the recently proposed colony of North Australia was established by a party from Sydney, under Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, R.E., with a suitable staff of public functionaries.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

The geological structure of this portion of the country is wholly dissimilar to any other part of North Australia we have yet traversed.

From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory

This indicates a recent subsidence of North Australia, which probably once extended as far as the edge of this bank, between which and Timor there is an unfathomed depth of ocean.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace