Definitions
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- proper noun A name for the comparatively lush areas of western
Victoria ,Australia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Francis Henty has given a most amusing account of the meeting between his party and that of Major (afterwards Sir Thomas) Mitchell, who, in exploring "Australia Felix," in 1836, came, in great surprise, upon the Henty settlement at Portland.
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Colonization extended rapidly to the shores of the southern ocean, and Australia Felix was made known to the British public.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Sydney and Melbourne, in Australia Felix; between which places mail-carriages now run twice a week.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Bathurst and the western interior as far as the land seemed worth exploring; another by Goulburn to Australia Felix and the southern coast; and, lastly, this, the third general route, to the northern shores at the nearest point, the head of the Gulf of
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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"Australia Felix and the discoveries of Sir Thomas Mitchell now dwindle into comparative insignificance."
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The amiable geographer needed no pressing, and told them first that this part of it was called Australia Felix.
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The odours that exude from the persons of elderly black gentlemen, especially those not addicted to the operation of bathing, would scarcely remind one of the perfumes of Araby the Blest, or Australia Felix either, therefore I ordered these intruders out.
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Moreover, Prairie de Long was discovered and settled nearly twenty years before Australia Felix was heard of.
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'Enterprise' for a voyage across the Straits to Australia Felix.
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And now, after undergoing for their sins various transmigrations into the forms of inferior animals, during two thousand years, as soon as shepherds are required in Australia Felix, they appear once more following their flocks and herds.
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