Once, an isolated island continent was plunged into war.
New Holland is a historical name for the island continent of Australia.
The land surface is divided into seventeen large island continents.
Federation was intended to address problems caused by having separate colonies on the one island continent.
Plenty of water, a big island continent - and not much else.
India used to be a separate island continent, but started to collide with Asia about 50 million years ago.
As an island continent, Australia is quite literally defined by its 37,000km of coast.
What about island continents when first invaded by new groups?
Australia is the world's second largest island and the only island continent.
On the eastern side of the rock outcropping is land that was an island continent 500 million years ago.
