Religion, rewards and reputation drove many to sail beyond the horizon into the unknown. A much desired acquisition was 'the phantom of Terra Australis', as described by Gunter Schider, historian and ...

The region was considered to be Earth's eighth continent before the majority of it got lost under the sea. Over 300 years ...

You can see a copy of his map online. Before this Europeans had long believed there was a land mass in the southern hemisphere which they called Terra Australia Incognita, meaning Unknown South Land.

He later disproved the existence of Terra Australis, a fabled southern continent. Cook’s voyages helped guide generations of ...

Humpback Highway West, Shark Bay off-ramp. We’re stalled in a cetacean traffic jam. Two juvenile whales are doing loops ...

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The map shows a trailing red dashed line leaving Plymouth, England and travelling South West to curve beneath South America before reaching point one on the East coast on New Zealand. The first point ...

Tent, Jan 2021. The 1705 van Delft expedition to northern Australia: a toponymic perspective. International Journal of Cartography, Vol. 7, Issue. 1, p. 6.

For many centuries Europeans believed there must be a vast land in the southern hemisphere, variously called ‘Terra Australis Incognita’ from the Latin for ‘Unknown South Land’. After Dutch navigators ...

For students diving into the realms of geography, understanding the world's major oceans and continents is essential. These ...

1570 map depicting "Terra Australis Nondum Cognita," source of the name Australia. Have you ever wondered how a country got its name? Many nations, such as France and Germany, were simply named for ...