South Australia
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2.5
- proper noun
:
Australia del Sur
- The capital city of South Australia, Adelaide, is known for its vibrant cultural scene and festivals.
- University of South Australia
- South Australia, Adelaide
Examples
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The case was a multisectoral health system in a region of South Australia (SA).
Academic text (2018) -
In two other states (Tasmania and South Australia), however, the Pacific oyster was deliberately introduced to create an industry where none existed.
Academic text (1992) -
The plan is... ...we're gonna go... ...west, down through South Australia.
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LBL received an International Postgraduate Research Award from Flinders University of South Australia from 2012 to 2015.
Academic text (2018) -
Dust storms raged in South Australia, northern Victoria, and southern NSW on many days in the summer of 1944-45.
Blog text (14) -
The University of Adelaide, South Australia, in an attempt to increase the number of rural physicians, has developed programs to recruit rural students into medical school.
Academic text (2008) -
Sharon is a sustainability ideas transmitter, writer, and activist from Adelaide, South Australia.
Blog text (17) -
The first two plights were sorry ones, all right, but a man had to expect a fair portion of grief if he undertook to raise sheep in South Australia.
Fiction book (1994) -
I live in Coonawarra, South Australia, with my wife Suse, daughters Georgie (10), Lucy (8), and son Jack (4).
Blog text (12) -
The University of Adelaide, South Australia, conducted a survey to examine how fifth and sixth year rural origin medical students compare to fifth and sixth year urban origin medical students with regard to stress (Durkin, 2003).
Academic text (2008)
Surface Forms
Morphology
South + Australia
The phrase combines the direction 'South' with the country name 'Australia', so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it refers to the southern part or region (in this case the state) of Australia. This compositional pattern (direction + place) is cross-linguistically common, making the meaning immediately transparent despite being a proper name.
Etymology
South Australia comes from a simple idea: it was the south part of Australia when people set up a new region there in the 1800s. So the name points to its location, and that is why it means the state in the south of Australia today.