land down under
Southern hemisphere continent
Land down under is an informal term for Australia, referring to its position in the Southern Hemisphere—"under" the equator from the perspective of Europe and North America.
The phrase gained wide currency through the 1981 Men at Work song "Down Under." It appears in casual speech and tourism contexts: I spent a year backpacking around the land down under.
- billabongIsolated river pool
- boomerangSelf-returning thrown weapon
- koalaTree-dwelling Australian marsupial
- kangarooPouched Australian leaper
- AustraliaSouthern Hemisphere continent-country
Sydney · Sydney Opera House · roo · eucalyptus · platypus · Melbourne · Perth · bush · mateship · Stolen Generations · Uluru · Aussie slang · no worries · emu · Brisbane · kookaburra · Vegemite · meat pie
land down underNorthern Hemisphere
Region above the equator
up north · Scandinavia · Canada · Russia · Alaska
land down underGreat Britain
Largest island, northwest Europe
England · Europe · Western Europe · Spain · Portugal
land, lands, landed, landing, landings, landlord, landowner, landless, inland