Terra Australis Incognita. Its native people, the Aborigines, had no use for Cook and his kind. Still, Cook was impressed. "In reality they are far more Happy than we Europeans," he wrote in his ...
"the southern land newly discovered but not yet fully known," and later maps also named it terra australis incognita. Able seaman John Vincent served as bo'sun, slang for boatswain, aboard the ...
Antarctica. “Terra Australis Incognita,” or unknown southern land. This is the harshest and coldest place on the planet. There are no bustling cities or green forests here, no large rivers.
18. "A Description of New Athens in Terra Australis incognita," signed Maurice William, in Miscellanea Aurea: or the Golden Medley, attributed to Thomas Killigrew (1720 DLC), pp 80-81. Another item in ...
he carried with him secret orders from the British Admiralty to seek out Terra Australis Incognita - the unknown southern land. He was the captain of HMB Endeavour and Joseph Banks was its lead ...
A new study addresses the difficulty in modeling atmospheric turbulence at sub-kilometer resolution, which is challenging due to atmospheric variability, meteorology and changeable terrain such as ...
Explorers didn't sight Antarctica until 1820. But that didn't stop centuries of imaginative geographers from boldly declaring its existence. Follow the course of Antarctic mapmaking, from ancient ...
When the explorer Matthew Flinders stumbled on the place in 1814, he called it Terra Australis Incognita, meaning “Unknown South Land”, and 200 years later this massive island continent ...
Terra Incognita is a multi-plane cut out animation made from photocopies of 19th century illustrations made during the race to the poles and drawings by Eric Leiser. For the puppet performance it ...
A veteran of multiple missions to the frosty South, Rogers says the mystique of the original Terra Australis Incognita is enhanced by its extreme inaccessibility. “It’s something else ...
Tent, Jan 2021. The 1705 van Delft expedition to northern Australia: a toponymic perspective. International Journal of Cartography, Vol. 7, Issue. 1, p. 6.
Debuting alongside its Scout Traveler SUV sibling, which we review separately, the Terra is poised to be an amalgam of modern and traditional styling and engineering themes. For instance ...