The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

A vast landmass that was once home to 500,000 people has been discovered off the coast of Australia. Now submerged, the ancient continent was habitable for nearly 65,000 years and covered an area of ...

A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.

said that the “complex landscape” that existed on the Northwest Shelf of Australia was “unlike any landscape found on our continent today”. And yet, the humans who lived there spoke ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast ...

Scientists in Australia have successfully produced the world’s first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Oceania is made up of Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and other islands. It is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north and east, the Southern Ocean to the south and the Indian Ocean ...