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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 595166" data-attributes="member: 1125">[RANT]I'm afraid Dragongirl that the use of the term Australasia is a crutch generated by a Continent-centric culture which is too Lazy/Ignorant/Stupid to recognize that the world is not conviniently divided into Continental groupings.The plethora of Pacific Islands is NOT part of some continous Australasian continent and as they cover 1/5 of the Earths surface (eg the area of the society islands alone is bigger than the whole of continental Europe!) they at least deserve recognition as a distinct area - and the term 'South Pacific Islands' is reasonable in this context - even if a few of them (like the Nation of Hawaii<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) are in the Northern Hemisphere) [/RANT]So anyway I chose the 'Some place I forgot' option - I'm from Aotearoa/New Zealand which is the southern most of the South Pacific Islands</blockquote>