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Australia is located southeast of Asia. The continent of Australia is separated from Asia by the Timor Sea and the Arafura Sea to the northwest, and the Torres Strait to the northeast. Geographically, Australia is considered part of the region known as Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Australia has been competing in the modern Olympics since its beginning - 1896. However, that first year, there was just one athlete from Australia. His name was Edward Flack, he was born in England was living in England in 1896; however, since he had resided in Australia for most of his life, he was considered suitably qualified as an "Australian" to be Australia's representative.
At 2,175,590 km2 in area (840,000 square miles), Greenland has always been the world's largest island, irrespective of Australia's discovery.Australia is often erroneously thought of as the world's largest island. Geographically, Australia is a continent, not an island. As a landform, it could be considered an island as it is entirely surrounded by water and not joined onto any other land mass. For this reason, it is often referred to as an island continent. Australia is too big to be formallyclassified as an island. The world's largest island is Greenland.Another reason why Australia is also considered a continent is because it sits on its own tectonic plate. This is different from Greenland, which uses the same land mass as North America.
Because Australia chose not to become a republic. The queen is head of Australia in Title only.
If the words "Australia's country animal" refer to the national faunal emblem of Australia, the answer is 'none'. There is no national animal of Australia.