New Guinea appears both in this one and in Asian one? Shouldn't it be either or? Also not really consistent to use Uluru for Ayers Rock, but then Mount Cook for Aoraki. Shouldn't both be indigenous OR white folks names? Not one of both?
I think New Guinea (aka Papua Island) belongs in both. This site is very consistent with using the dividing line between the countries of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea as the division between the regions of Asia and Oceania. Since part of the island is in both regions, it should be included in both quizzes.
Oceania is not a true continent, of course. Australia is. Still, its definition is based on physical elements, such as straits and tectonic plates. Furthermore, there are shallow waters between Australia and New Guinea, thus they form a large land mass during ice ages, in the same way as Borneo and Sumatra with Indochina : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea#mediaviewer/File:Map_of_Sunda_and_Sahul.png. There are deep trenches around Sulawesi that isolate it between the continents, as well as Timor and a few other islands. That bunch could be said to be both Asian and Oceanian, if you want, but unambiguously not New Guinea, which the tectonic plates map also show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#mediaviewer/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg
This being said, I have given my opinion... I you want to persist in your error, well, too bad for the both of you...
*whistles* This one was the last I took of the series, and by far the most difficult. Never realized how much I didn't know about Australia's physical geography, in particular.
The name of NZ's highest peak has been gazetted by the New Zealand Geographic Board as Aoraki/Mt Cook. The Board often designates alternate English and Maori names that can be used interchangeably and are considered equally correct, such as "Mt Taranaki or Mt Egmont", but Aoraki/Mt Cook is unusual in that it has been designated one single, joint, name; these are not alternates.
The Nullarbor Plain actually runs as much or more through Western Australia as South Australia. I think clue should say "southern Australia" instead of South Australia.
This being said, I have given my opinion... I you want to persist in your error, well, too bad for the both of you...
of Australia" is not the Great Australian Bay.