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Definition of South Australia

1. Noun. A state in south central Australia.

Definition of South Australia

1. Proper noun. One of the six states of Australia, located in the central southern part of the continent, with its capital at Adelaide. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of South Australia

1. A state in south central Australia. Its capital is adelaide. It was probably first visited by f. Thyssen in 1627. Later discoveries in 1802 and 1830 opened up the southern part. It became a british province in 1836 with this self-descriptive name and became a state in 1901. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of South Australia

Literary usage of South Australia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"There was strength only by the adherents of the Church of The religious statistics of south Australia were in the Commonwealth is surpassed in numerical ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"1897, Sir Samuel J. Way, chief justice of south Australia, was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ..."

3. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia by Alfred William Howitt (1904)
"At the further end of the series, whether in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, or south Australia, the tribes living, say, on the coast lands, ..."

4. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia by Alfred William Howitt (1904)
"At the further end of the series, whether in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, or south Australia, the tribes living, say, on the coast lands, ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"On the shores of the Gulf St Vincent, again, from 1835 to 1837, south Australia was created by another joint-stock company, as an experiment in the Wake- ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"On the shores of the Gulf St Vincent, again, from 1835 to 1837, south Australia was created by another joint-stock company, as an experiment in the Wake- ..."

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