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	Terra Australis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terra Australis is the large continent on the bottom of the map
		New Zealand, first seen by a European (Abel Tasman) in 1642, was by some regarded as a part of the continent, as well as Africa and Australia.
		The idea of Terra Australis was finally corrected by Matthew Flinders and James Cook.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terra_Australis (443 words)

	Terra incognita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terra incognita is a term used in exploration for "unknown territory" that has not been mapped or documented.
		Although cartographers did claim that fantastic beasts (including large serpents) existed in remote corners of the world, only one surviving map actually says "Here be dragons".
		Terra incognita may also refer to the imaginary continent Terra Australis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terra_incognita (114 words)

	The mysteries of the Piri Reis Map - 2
		On the myth of "Terra Australis" a great many books have been written, and in all the studies on the history of cartography maps will be found representing the fabulous continent; which is not an ice-free Anctartica, but an imaginary land.
		In those maps, as in many others, we see "Terra Australis Incognita", a myth not different from the one of the Garden of Eden (which, too, is often to be found in medioeval maps), the Prester John Reign (usually placed in East Africa), or El Dorado.
		The great gulf depicted in Terra Australis could then be a sketchy layout of Carpentaria Gulf, in which the two islands of Groote and Wellesley are recognizable, or the Bonaparte Gulf, near Java and Timor.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /dicuoghi/Piri_Reis/Finaeus_eng.htm (991 words)

	In search of Terra Australis Incognita
		He called this land Terra Incognita or "unknown land".
		After Ptolemy a lot of time went by and in the middle ages these theories were abandoned for the world is "flat" thinking and it was blasphemy to consider otherwise.
		Tasman speculated that New Zealand was part of the great and fabled Terra Australis Incognita.
	incognita2005.blogspot.com (760 words)

	H-Soz-u-Kult / Termine / CFP: terra incognita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Its caption was as simple as it was frightening: “terra incognita” — both a menace and a challenge to any mariner.
		Now that the terrae incognitae have been entirely engulfed by the meridians of the known, there seems to be little space left for exploration.
		We thus welcome submissions for papers approaching the subject “Terra incognita” from a historical, philosophical, literary, artistic or political point of view.
	hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de /termine/id=4101 (230 words)

	[artinfo] CFP "terra incognita" (ATOPIA 8) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		ATOPIA :: polylogic e-zine http://www.atopia.tk Call for Papers - TERRA INCOGNITA For a long time, regions unknown to the civilized world were densely populated by monsters, troglodytes or mythical beings.
		Its caption was as simple as it was frightening: "terra incognita" - both a menace and a challenge to any mariner.
		Visual art of any format but strictly on the subject of "Terra incognita" may be submitted to atopia(at)atopia(dot)tk.
	lists.c3.hu /pipermail/artinfo/2005-June/003253.html (302 words)

	UWA Museum & Galleries at the School of Art: Terra Incognita, Images of Australia Exhibition
		Terra Incognita: Images of Australia by seven artists born or working in Wales
		Early Europeans called it Terra Australis Incognita - the unknown southern continent.
		To contemporary artists, both Australian and European, Australia still remains to some extent terra incognita - a subject ripe for exploration and development.
	www.aber.ac.uk /museum/exhibitions/terraincognita.shtml (607 words)

	400 years Netherlands-Australia: Explorers
		The ancients called it ‘Terra Australis Incognita’ or Unknown South Land.
		By 1525, many seafarers, too, were convinced that a vast continent – Terra Australis Incognita – must exist beyond the southernmost tip of Africa.
		Although Abel Tasman’s first voyage in 1642 revealed that the South Land was not part of the southern continent we now know as Antarctica, and although ‘Hollandia Nova’ or New Holland appeared on contemporary maps, the name Australia was now firmly associated with it.
	www.nederland-australie2006.nl /geschiedenis/au/html/ontdekkingsreizigers_index.html (256 words)

	BBC - History - Endeavour's Scientific Impact (1768 - 1771)
		Alas, the attempt to chart the transit of Venus near Tahiti was unsuccessful, so Cook was prompted to open a further set of instructions for his voyage, hitherto kept secret.
		These told him to proceed south in search of the suspected but as yet undiscovered land mass known as Terra Australis Incognita, and to study and make collections of all natural materials, beasts, fish and minerals that he found.
		Although these instructions initially related only to the secondary aim of the voyage, it was because of them, and due to the passion and enthusiasm of the natural historians on board, that the whole expedition became so famous, and even today still fires the imagination.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/british/empire_seapower/endeavour_voyage_01.shtml (331 words)

	TEA: Giesting- -- 3.22.1999
		The Egyptian geographer, Ptolemy (150 AD), named this unknown southern land "Terra Australis Incognita." Although we know today that Antarctica does not exist as a balance to the Northern Hemisphere, this belief kept early explorers searching for this unknown land.
		This helped geographers to understand that Africa was actually connected to the known world; and that Terra Australis Incognita, if it really existed, must be connected somewhere else (if at all).
		By going through this small waterway, however, Magellan was not able to prove whether or not Terra Australis Incognita was actually connected to the land south of the strait.
	tea.armadaproject.org /giesting/3.22.1999.html (909 words)

	History Essay 67
		Though large, it was felt to be too small to qualify as "terra australis incognita", and since it was desolate, did not qualify as "Locac" either.
		There was a report of a south lying island with "snow covered mountains" but those looking for a continent which did not exist also expected it to be warm and fertile.
		To terra incognita he would add the final chapter: go as south as you can go and you will find ice, ice, and more ice, not warm, not fertile, not the home of 50 million souls.
	www.naciente.com /essay67.htm (724 words)

	introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The most famous geographers of' the Renaissance, Martin Waldseemüller, Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius discussed the Terra australis incognita and drew tentative maps.
		The Terra australis is a myth but the Earth has another kind of equilibrium: its poles are, within one kilometer, at their position of stable equilibrium.
		The question of the motions of the Earth axis is essential for understanding the evolution of climates and life.
	geology.ref.ac /marchal/introduction.htm (388 words)

	[NetBehaviour] terra incognita (ATOPIA 8)
		Its caption was as simple as it was frightening: "terra > incognita" - both a menace and a challenge to any mariner.
		Now > that the terrae incognitae have been entirely engulfed by the meridians > of the known, there seems to be little space left for exploration.
		As no terra incognita is homogeneous, it has its > arteries too.
	www.netbehaviour.org /pipermail/netbehaviour/20050603/000179.html (287 words)

	Australian
		Prior to Captain Cook’s voyage, both Antarctica and Australia were regarded as one combined land mass known as Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for “unknown southern continent”.
		Flinders’ map reads: “General chart of Terra Australis or Australia: shows the parts explored between 1798 and 1803 by M. Flinders Commander of H.M.S. Investigator”.
		In 1788, there were approximately seven hundred languages spoken by a population estimated at 700,000 indigenous people in many tribal communities throughout the continent.
	www.lyrebirdmedia.com /history_australia.htm (460 words)

	Antarctica timeline - Imaginging Terra Australis - Antarctica collections
		The first European perceptions of the southern land were conjectural, part of the rational explanation of philosophers rather than the results of exploration.
		The idea of Terra Australis Incognita (The Unknown Southern Land) began with the Greeks who argued that the earth is a sphere.
		From the fifteenth century on, many map-makers included the mythical continent of Terra Australis Incognita, situated where Antarctica is located.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /antarctica/timeline (142 words)

	Condor Journeys - Cruises to the Antarctica from Ushuaia, Argentina
		They assumed that there must be a huge land mass covering the southern half of the globe to balance the lands of the northern half.
		They named this yet undiscovered land mass Terra Australis Incognita (The Unknown Southern Continent).
		It was only the 7 February 1821, that the American sealer, John Davis, became the first person actually to set foot upon the Antarctic continent when he landed at Hughes Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
	www.condorjourneys-adventures.com /antarctica.asp (551 words)

	Early Voyages to Terra Australis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the same volume is a map of the Antartic hemisphere, in which the Terra Australis incognita is brought high up to the north in the longitude of Australia.
		The 'Australis Terra' begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is maintained by some to be of so great an extent, that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world."
		Thirdly, the printed memoirs of Quiros bear the title of Terra Australis Incognita, while the southern Tierra Austral, discovered by Quiros himself, and surnamed by him "del Espiritu Santo", is none other than the "New Hebrides", of the maps of the present day.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks06/0600361h.html (15886 words)

	Below the Convergence
		The mass of land to the south is terra incognita.
		And the persistence of the terra incognita in the south will send James Cook off on the second of his great voyages around the world.
		The spate of journals fuels the speculations of academics as to the size, shape, location, inhabitants, and possible trade with Terra australis incognita An age's literature reflects its fads, fashions, and concerns; it is no wonder, then, that Swift's Lilliput is located to the northwest of Van Diemen's Land.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/g/gurney-convergence.html (7059 words)

	2. European Exploration, 1600-1800. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In the 16th and 17th centuries, the main reason for the exploration was the search for the Terra Australis Incognita, which was believed to contain fabulous wealth.
		Later, scientific discovery and the search for alternative trade routes were important factors.
		Pedro Fernández de Quirós, one of Mendana's captains, set sail again from Callao in December 1605 in search of new lands and unknown southern continents (Terra Australis Incognita).
	www.bartleby.com /67/865.html (493 words)

	Great Southern Land: The maritime exploration of Terra Australis
		Although Indigenous Australians had lived here for thousands of years, for the Europeans it was ‘Terra Australis Incognita’, the great unknown land.
		Early maps of the world showed a single land mass at the bottom of the world to balance, as one would with a set of scales, the land masses of the northern hemisphere.
		Great Southern Land: The maritime exploration of Terra Australis was originally written to provide a context for the Australian Heritage Council’s assessment of coastal heritage sites.
	www.deh.gov.au /heritage/publications/great-southern-land.html (457 words)

	Antarctic History Page
		In January 1904 the Morning returned with the Terra Nova under Captain Mackay, the Discovery was freed using explosives, and the ships left for New Zealand.
		Robert Scott (1910-1913) returned in the Terra Nova and built their expedition hut at Cape Evans.
		Victor Campbell and other members of the northern party were forced to overwinter in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island in Terra Nova Bay.
	antarctica.org.nz /02-history (1121 words)

	Antarctic History
		Their location corresponds to where the shore of Terra Australis Incognita was placed on the Dutch East India Company map of the time, which de la Roche had studied.
		In the meantime, on January 3, the northern party had been retrieved by the Terra Nova and dropped off for a brief survey at Terra Nova Bay.
		By 1825, six species of fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella, A. forsteri, A. tropicalis, A. australis, A. phillipii, and A. pusillus) had been hunted to near extinction around the coasts of Chile and Argentina, and on most of the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic islands.
	www.antarcticaonline.com /antarctica/history/history.htm (14180 words)

	Mug - Antarctica / Terra Australis Incognita
		Terra Australis Incognita - The Unknown South Land
		We've combined exceptional high quality, the perfect size, and a fantastic design onto what is sure to become your favorite mug.
		Terra Australis Incognita means "The Unknown South Land" which was used to describe Antarctica during its early days of exploration.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /AB1583000equick/shopexd.asp?id=1370 (122 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		Further, the OF map doesn't accurtately depict the straits of magellan (the PR map not at all).
		The supposed antartica is labled "Terra Australis," which was thought to exist at the south pole since the Greeks because of a greek argument of a spherical earth needing it to balance.
		Ergo the OF "Terra Australis" is likely a combination of things known at the time with classic map myths carried over: Australia, an artic land south of S America, and the ever present "Terra Australis Incognita."
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=21&pid=322066 (277 words)

	Chapter 1. — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		On these maps you can see that the Indian Ocean was bordered by a ‘Terra Incognita’ (an unknown land) at the 20th parallel.
		On the world map of Dutch Cartographer Ortelius the still unknown Antarctica is named "Terra Australis Nondum Cognita" (unknown south land).
		With his ship, Drake reached the Golden Hind, Cape Horn, the south of Tierra del Fuego, and discovered a new passage to the Pacific (the Strait of Drake).
	www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-history/chapter-by-chapter/chapter1 (537 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Archives :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Terra Australis Incognita, the "Unknown Southern Land"...the "last place on earth"....
		For most of human history, and still for most people today, Antarctica is a blank, a great white continent covered with ice, unconnected to daily life back in the industrial world.
		Visit our Photo Gallery and discover the life of Antarctica -- and how it relates to the industrial world.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /antarctica2/main/field.html (93 words)

	Pacific Venture by John Vint
		Meantime a merchant's daughter sets her cap at Jose and their courtship has to be conducted in the intervals of exploration.
		The ship is sent to discover the legendary "Terra Australis Incognita", rumoured to be somewhere off the South American coast.
		Full of a heady mixture of excitement and historical accuracy this is a stirring yarn of the days of tall sailing ships, full of adventure and the thrill of exploring the unknown.
	midi-ebooks.com /vint.html (1004 words)

	The Heraldry of the Barony of the Southern Wastes (Incipient) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		We thought Terra Australis Incognita was a great name for our incipient Shire (which is what we were at the time); it was the period name for Antarctica, and we could prove it.
		Furthermore, as you have so kindly documented, Terra Australis Incognita was the name of a place which actually existed within the SCA period, therefore it is inadmissible as the name of an SCA group.
		Even if it were permitted to register existing place-names as the name of a group, nobody lived in Antarctica during the SCA period, so to claim that there were would be contrary to historical fact.
	www.thequarter.org /SouthernWastes/heraldry.html (1031 words)

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