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Originally posted by Trisk
Uhm...actually, if I'm not mistaken, the continent Australia is considered to be part of is called "Oceania". Australia is the name of a country. There are several other countries/islands near it, including New Zealand...which don't consider themself part of Australia. However...I think the name Oceania was only added to the books 4-5 years ago so I'm not going to blame you for being mistaken 
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The number of land masses considered continents depends on where you are from(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents).
Some countries teach a 7 continent model of the world (the US and parts of western Europe). Others teach a 6 continent model with the Americas combined as one (Europe and South America) . Others teach a 5 continent model without Antarctica and the Americas as one continent (UK).
In all of the cases, Australia is not included as part of Asia and the Islands of Oceania are not considered part of a "true continent" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania). Australia is considered a continent nearly everywhere.
Anyhoo, I may have gone off the deep end talking about continents...And I just said anyhoo... I've got problems...