Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.
Charles SturtAbout author
- Author's profession: Explorer
- Nationality: australian
- Born: April 28, 1795
- Died: June 16, 1869
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