Mainland Australia

Mainland Australia.

Mainland Australia is the main land mass of the Commonwealth of Australia excluding Tasmania and other offshore islands and external territories (such as the Australian Antarctic Territory). The land mass also constitutes the mainland of the Australian continent, and the term, along with continental Australia, can be used in a geographic sense to exclude surrounding continental islands. Generally, the term is applied to the states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia, as well as the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, and Jervis Bay Territory.

The term is typically used when referring to the relationship between Tasmania and the other Australian states,[1][2] in that people not from Tasmania are referred to as mainlanders.[3] Tasmania has been omitted on a number of occasions from maps of Australia, reinforcing the divide between Tasmania and the mainland. The 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane left Tasmania off the map of Australia during the opening ceremony, as did the designs of the Australian Swim Team uniform for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[3]

The land mass covers 7,595,342 km2 (2,932,578 sq mi), about 98.7% of the area of the country of Australia and covering 1.5% of the Earth's surface.[4] Its population is about 24.5 million, 98% of Australia's population.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "A quick look back". Basslink. Hydro Tasmania. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ex-interstate vehicles". Department of State Growth, Transport. Tasmanian Government. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Separation of Tasmania". National Museum of Australia. NMA. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories

Coordinates: 27°S 133°E / 27°S 133°E / -27; 133

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