Is Australia a (Biogeographic) Island?
I was always taught there were seven continents, Australia being one of them. However, I ve been doing this long enough to know many of my international viewers might ve been taught something else; that Australia is an island within the continent of Oceania. This has in turn generated a lot of confusion surround Australia and its status as a landmass. Of course as we all know, these terms are meaningless, which is why lately we ve been using biogeographic realms instead. I hope by using these alternative units for dividing the earth, we might finally get to an answer as to whether Australia is an island! Support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Sources / Further Reading https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Geography_(Human)/Book%3A_World_Regional_Geography_(Finlayson)/10%3A_Oceania/10.03%3A_Biogeography_in_Australia_and_the_Pacific https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/biogeography-of-australasia/biogeography-of-australia/D7A01EE3EB889451708C7EF4D47FB5AB https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=v7_nCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA9&dq=biogeography+of+australia&ots=sqBeL5VmyJ&sig=BKG4de8x4c9y4M4KJyHmfVuMIQA#v=onepage&q=biogeography%20of%20australia&f=false https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01454359 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001858#:~:text=Djarthia%20is%20therefore%20the%20oldest%20known%20Australian%20crown%2Dgroup%20marsupial,oldest%20anywhere%20in%20the%20world. https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/story-our-eucalypts#:~:text=Ancient%20eucalypts%20were%20probably%20similar,and%20a%20fire%2Dprone%20landscapes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography#/media/File:Wallace03.jpg https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001858#:~:text=Djarthia%20is%20therefore%20the%20oldest,marsupial%20by%2030%20million%20years. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5487466_Australia s_Oldest_Marsupial_Fossils_and_their_Biogeographical_Implications Additional Music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Infados" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
