What is the correct title for the continent in which you would find Australia? I have heard Oceania, Australia and Australasia used.

Australia is the correct term for the continent.
Compare the definitions:
Oceania
Australia
Australasia

Pretty neat, posting that question from New Zealand !
Are the Kiwis trying to remember what the polite term for that place is, having forgotten what it is after using some other kind for so long ? We can guess what the All Blacks and others call it !

It would appear that New Zealand doesn't belong to any continent, then.

I enquired from the New Zealand Embassy in London about which continent they belonged to in Dec 2001and this was their reply.

"Given that a continent is a landmass technically speaking New Zealand is
not part of any continent. However, New Zealand and Australia are commonly
associated with one another and are known as 'Australasia'. New Zealand
and Australia are also part of a group of Pacific Islands that stretch up
to the Equator, including Fiji, etc. This grouping of islands is known as
Oceania.

Either are applicable for describing New Zealand's link to a continent,
however I suspect that Australasia is more appropriate.

I hope this has helped you."

When I was at grammar school we were taught that the continent was Australasia, but it would appear that now it is just Australia,(as the man says above, the land mass is the continent) and New Zealand is ignored. Ergo, the British Isles, not being part of the land mass of Europe,is not technically part of that continent. Interesting point, what?

[This message was edited by Fourbrick on 08-29-03 at 04:40 AM.]

[This message was edited by Fourbrick on 08-29-03 at 04:42 AM.]

The English Channel which seperates the southern coast of England from the northern coast of France
is the smallest of the shallow seas covering the continental shelf of Europe. So technically Great Britain is a part of the continent of Europe.

Iceland however, which is included politically as a part of Europe, is not technically a part of the continent of Europe as it arises from volcanism associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.