Charles Sturt Quote

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.

Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia, 1828-1831 (ed. 1833)

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...

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...

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...

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...