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Fri 13 Apr, 2012 10:28 pm
One to go any help would be greatly appreciated
17a Australia and NZ are known as The ? (9)
Thanx Carole
A lot of us don't havbe the actual puzzles, so you have to give us known letters and blanks. One possible answer in the absence of further knowledge is Antipodes
It has 9 letters. Technically, antipodes are the points diametrically opposite from a given point on the globe, so wherever you are is antipodal to somewhere else. However, probably because Aus and NZ were so far away from most of their settlers, on the far side of the world, that's probably why they took on the nickname.
thankyou so much for the answer and explanation, makes sense now and I apologise for not giving letters and blanks which I normally do do.