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n. 1 Oceania 2 Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands
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Australasia is the full-length debut album by Chicago post-metal band Pelican. It was released November 4, 2003 on Hydra Head Records.
Guitarist Trevor de Brauw has noted that because of budget restrictions, the Australasia sessions had to be rushed. The studio was also under construction during recording and had a few impediments. Despite this, critical reception has been largely positive.
The track "Drought" was used in the 2009 war film The Messenger.
Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French Australasie) in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific ( Magellanica). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India.
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Therefore, at a time when the littoral regions of the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, or the Gulf of Mexico already enjoyed a warmer climate, and became the seats of higher civilizations, immense territories in middle Europe, Siberia, and Northern America, as well as in Patagonia, Southern Africa, and Southern Australasia, remained in early postglacial conditions which rendered them inaccessible to the civilized nations of the torrid and sub-torrid zones.
Australia, New Ireland, Australasia, united to the archipelagoes of the Pacific, have once formed a sixth part of the world, as important as Europe or Asia, as Africa or the two Americas?
Thirty-, forty-thousand-year-old myths that come not only from Australasia, but from every culture.
I hope our work on the Formicidae of Australasia will demonstrate is that the antibacterial struggle has also been waged by more complex species, including that most diverse class of species in the animal kingdom, the Insecta.
I told you--it seems ages ago, now--how I missed him at Melbourne, and then chased him all over Australasia for months on end.
Europe, Central Asia, North America, will gradually be abandoned, as well as Australasia and the lower parts of South America.
Genghis Khan, with so many territories in the New World, the Far East and Australasia, Southern Africa and Antarctica, of which Genghis Khan had had no knowledge.
The central data bank for the whole of Australasia was here in Sydney: crims from Auckland, Perth, Port Moresby, Oodnadatta, even Canberra, met here in an identification parade that none of them was aware of.
David's better equipped to do Australasia, and Australia and New Zealand are far more important to us than Canada, far more important they're vital and the treasure house of all Asia.
David's better equipped to do Australasia, and Australia and New Zealand are far more important to us than Canada, far more important-they're vital and the treasure house of all Asia.