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The Australian continent has a land area of 2,984,000 square miles, some three-quarters of that of Europe (including European Russia) and is thus the smallest of the continents. It is about the same size as the United States and is some twenty-five times the land area of the British Isles.
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Keast, A. (1959). The Australian Environment. In: Keast, A., Crocker, R.L., Christian, C.S. (eds) Biogeography and Ecology in Australia. Monographiae Biologicae. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6295-3_2
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