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furoya

australia
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Australia, whose official name is Commonwealth of Australia, is an island country located in Oceania. It is assumed that its name comes from Latin, since it was associated with the mythical Terra Australis Incognita (Unknown Land of the South), although at the beginning of the seventeenth century the main island of the nearby Vanuatu archipelago was baptized as Austrialia del Espíritu Santo by the Iberian explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós, a little because he thought it had arrived at Terra Australis and another little to pay homage to the house of Austria that ruled Spain, in addition to remembering the celebration of the Holy Spirit; and this was the name that became popular in the region until the English imposed that of Australia.

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