Question: where did the british empire control an entire continent
[{'answer': 'Australia', 'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '4721', 'title': 'British Empire', 'start_paragraph_id': 4, 'start_character': 351, 'end_paragraph_id': 4, 'end_character': 360, 'bleu_score': 1.0, 'section': 'Section::::Abstract.'}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '4721', 'title': 'British Empire', 'start_paragraph_id': 0, 'start_character': 0, 'end_paragraph_id': 0, 'end_character': 0, 'bleu_score': 1.0, 'meta': {'yes_no_answer': 'NONE', 'annotation_id': 13425284441180590514}, 'section': 'Section::::Abstract.'}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '4721', 'title': 'British Empire', 'start_paragraph_id': 36, 'start_character': 30, 'end_paragraph_id': 36, 'end_character': 1367, 'bleu_score': 0.9362469812671471, 'meta': {'yes_no_answer': 'NONE', 'annotation_id': 13425284441180590514}, 'section': 'Section::::Rise of the "Second" British Empire (1783–1815).:Exploration of the Pacific.\n'}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '4721', 'title': 'British Empire', 'section': 'Section::::Abstract.', 'start_paragraph_id': 4, 'end_paragraph_id': 4, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ["During the 19th century, Britain's population increased at a dramatic rate, accompanied by rapid urbanisation, which caused significant social and economic stresses. To seek new markets and sources of raw materials, the British government under Benjamin Disraeli initiated a period of imperial expansion in Egypt, South Africa, and elsewhere. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand became self-governing dominions.\rhighlight sentence(s) containing evidence, not only the answer", "During the 19th century, Britain's population increased at a dramatic rate, accompanied by rapid urbanisation, which caused significant social and economic stresses. To seek new markets and sources of raw materials, the British government under Benjamin Disraeli initiated a period of imperial expansion in Egypt, South Africa, and elsewhere. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand became self-governing dominions."]}}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '21175158', 'title': 'Commonwealth of Nations', 'section': 'Section::::History.:Origins of the concept and establishment of the term.\n', 'start_paragraph_id': 8, 'end_paragraph_id': 8, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ['equivalent to 20% of the world\'s land area, and span all six inhabited continents. Queen Elizabeth II, in her address to Canada on Dominion Day in 1959, pointed out that the confederation of Canada on 1 July 1867 had been the birth of the "first independent country within the British Empire". She declared: "So, it also marks the beginning of that free association of independent states which is now known as the Commonwealth of Nations." As long ago as 1884 Lord Rosebery, while visiting Australia, had described the changing British Empire, as some of its colonies became more independent, as a "Commonwealth of Nations". Conferences of British and colonial prime ministers occurred periodically from the first one in 1887, leading to the creation of the Imperial Conferences in 1911.\rhighlight sentence(s) containing evidence, not only the answer', 'equivalent to 20% of the world\'s land area, and span all six inhabited continents. Queen Elizabeth II, in her address to Canada on Dominion Day in 1959, pointed out that the confederation of Canada on 1 July 1867 had been the birth of the "first independent country within the British Empire". She declared: "So, it also marks the beginning of that free association of independent states which is now known as the Commonwealth of Nations." As long ago as 1884 Lord Rosebery, while visiting Australia, had described the changing British Empire, as some of its colonies became more independent, as a "Commonwealth of Nations". Conferences of British and colonial prime ministers occurred periodically from the first one in 1887, leading to the creation of the Imperial Conferences in 1911.']}}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '4721', 'title': 'British Empire', 'section': 'Section::::Rise of the "Second" British Empire (1783–1815).:Exploration of the Pacific.\n', 'start_paragraph_id': 36, 'end_paragraph_id': 36, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ["Since 1718, transportation to the American colonies had been a penalty for various offences in Britain, with approximately one thousand convicts transported per year across the Atlantic. Forced to find an alternative location after the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in 1783, the British government turned to the newly discovered lands of Australia. The coast of Australia had been discovered for Europeans by the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon in 1606 and was named New Holland by the Dutch East India Company, but there was no attempt to colonise it. In 1770 James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific Ocean, claimed the continent for Britain, and named it New South Wales. In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788. Britain continued to transport convicts to New South Wales until 1840, to Tasmania until 1853 and to Western Australia until 1868. The Australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold, mainly because of gold rushes in the colony of Victoria, making its capital Melbourne for a time the richest city in the world and the second largest city (after London) in the British Empire.\rhighlight sentence(s) containing evidence, not only the answer", 'In 1770 James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific Ocean, claimed the continent for Britain, and named it New South Wales.', "Since 1718, transportation to the American colonies had been a penalty for various offences in Britain, with approximately one thousand convicts transported per year across the Atlantic. Forced to find an alternative location after the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in 1783, the British government turned to the newly discovered lands of Australia. The coast of Australia had been discovered for Europeans by the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon in 1606 and was named New Holland by the Dutch East India Company, but there was no attempt to colonise it. In 1770 James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific Ocean, claimed the continent for Britain, and named it New South Wales. In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788. Britain continued to transport convicts to New South Wales until 1840, to Tasmania until 1853 and to Western Australia until 1868. The Australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold, mainly because of gold rushes in the colony of Victoria, making its capital Melbourne for a time the richest city in the world and the second largest city (after London) in the British Empire."]}}]}]