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I actually find this talking point so braindead that, to this day, I still have a hard time believing that people genuinely believe it. (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never heard of the continent Australia is on being called Australia. I've always heard and been taught that it's Oceania here in Canada. Do people actually call it all Australia?

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone in the U.S. calls it Australia that I know, some other countries do as well.

Wikipedia lists it as Australia for us as well. (All textbooks did here)

The reasoning we were taught is that Continents were large land masses, which Oceania unlike the other 6, isn't really a landmass so much, rather just the name of the tectonic plate.