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North Australia

American  

noun

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


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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

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 Alfred Rochefort

A company or syndicate was formed in February, 1859, for the purpose of establishing a new pastoral settlement in North Australia.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

It was at this time that Lord Stanley conceived the notion of a new penal colony in North Australia, and it fell to his successor, Mr. Gladstone, to give it form and substance. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

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