in a despatch to Lord Bathurst of 4 April 1817 in which Governor Lachlan
Macquarie acknowledges the receipt of Capt. Flinders' charts of Australia. On
12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be
formally adopted. In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be
known officially as Australia.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Etymology
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Australia&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=
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