WTF Kiwis are not australian

In the brief about this thread or watever its called it says
"Do you like kiwis, kangaroos, Tasmanian devils and koalas?"
KIWIS are from New Zealand, not bloody australia,
I posted this just to rave because I had being mistaken for being australia or something from New Zealand being mistaken as australian.
Ur thoughts?

Australia's still the name of the continent, innit?

Australia's still the name of the continent, innit?

jespah wrote:

Australia's still the name of the continent, innit?

OMG I HEAR THAT SO MUCH, if I knew where you lived id kill you, damn New Zealand isnt part of aussie, we are two different countries, its like saying japan is part of china, get it?

Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses 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). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast).

Physiographically, Australasia includes the Australian continent (along with the Australian island-state of Tasmania), New Zealand, and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south.

Most of Australia lies on the southern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south. Peripheral territories lie on the Eurasian Plate to the northwest, the Philippine Plate to the north, and in the Pacific Ocean - including numerous marginal seas - atop the Pacific Plate to the north and east.

Geopolitically, Australasia is sometimes used as a term for Australia and New Zealand together, in the absence of another word limited to those two countries. There are many organizations whose names are prefixed with "(Royal) Australasian Society" that are limited to just Australia and New Zealand.


Australasian Olympic FlagIn the past, Australasia has been used as a name for combined Australia/New Zealand sporting teams. Examples include tennis between 1905 and 1913, when Australia and New Zealand combined its best players to compete in the Davis Cup international tournament (and won it in 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1911), and at the Olympic Games of 1908 and 1912. Australasia also competed in the 1911 Festival of Light in London, the precursor of the Commonwealth Games.

In speculative fiction or counterfactual historical analysis, it is used to describe an alternate history Australia and New Zealand which agreed to political union at Australian federation in 1901, rather than seeking divergent British Empire Dominion status in 1901 and 1907 respectively.

Anthropologists, although disagreeing on details, generally support theories that call for a Southeastern Asian origin of indigenous island peoples in Australasia and neighboring subregions.

From an ecological perspective the Australasia ecozone is a distinct region with a common evolutionary history and a great many unique flora and fauna. In this context, Australasia is limited to Australia, New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, including the Indonesian islands from Lombok and Sulawesi eastward. The biological dividing line from Asia is the Wallace line - Borneo and Bali lie on the western, Asian side. New Zealand comprises another ecological zone altogether, as it had been isolated from the rest of the world, including the rest of Australasia, for even longer.

jespah wrote:

Australia's still the name of the continent, innit?

OMG I HEAR THAT SO MUCH, if I knew where you lived id kill you, damn New Zealand isnt part of aussie, we are two different countries, its like saying japan is part of china, get it?

Dartboy wrote:

jespah wrote:

Australia's still the name of the continent, innit?

OMG I HEAR THAT SO MUCH, if I knew where you lived id kill you, damn New Zealand isnt part of aussie, we are two different countries, its like saying japan is part of china, get it?

But even if New Zealand isn't part of Australia (the country) or Australia (the continent), Australia is still the name of both the country and of the continent. Right?

I was taught, in school, about Australasia and Oceania, but I'm not at all surprised at people's limited knowledge of geography...

Even from those who are so adamant about local stuff...

People from Ingushi will be very upset if you don't know their capital...

But the country of Australia does NOT include the country, New Zealand.

This Forum, which is called Australia has names the kiwi, which is NOT an Australian bird...thus denoting that New Zealand is to be discussed under Australia.

That's like including discussions of Canada under the USA, rather than under North America.

dlowan wrote:

But the country of Australia does NOT include the country, New Zealand.

And apparently, neither does the continent. In fact, there seems to be a whole continent called Zealandia. Who'd've known?

dlowan wrote:

This Forum, which is called Australia has names the kiwi, which is NOT an Australian bird...thus denoting that New Zealand is to be discussed under Australia.

Now that's just rude.

dlowan wrote:

That's like including discussions of Canada under the USA, rather than under North America.

Or discussions about Austria under Germany, I suppose.


I'd be offended.

Bunny, I'm able to know the differents countries of the world.

What I mean is that to the average people from Minnesota or Puglia such distinction is beyond their immediate concern..

Now, I would like Dartboy answer my initial question without further research...

Bunny, I'm able to know the differents countries of the world.

What I mean is that to the average people from Minnesota or Puglia such distinction is beyond their immediate concern..

Now, I would like Dartboy answer my initial question without further research...