Geography
- Australasia, a region of Oceania, including New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands
- Oceania, a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands – mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity, usually including Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia
- The southern part of the Pacific Ocean, usually the area south of the equator
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Famous quotes containing the word geography:
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much geography is there in their names.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.”
—Derek Wall (b. 1965)