This article is about the hypothetical continent. For the orogen, see Terra Australis Orogen.
"Great South Land" redirects here. For the poem, see The Great South Land: An Epic Poem.
Terra Australis
1570 map by Abraham Ortelius depicting "Terra Australis Nondum Cognita" as a large continent on the bottom of the map
In-universe information
Type
Hypothetical continent
Locations
Patalis
Terra Australis (Latin: 'Southern Land') was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that continental land in the Northern Hemisphere should be balanced by land in the Southern Hemisphere.[1] This theory of balancing land has been documented as early as the 5th century on maps by Macrobius, who uses the term Australis on his maps.
^John Noble Wilford: The Mapmakers, the Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to Space Age, p. 139, Vintage Books, Random House 1982, ISBN 0-394-75303-8
land of the south") or TerraAustralis Nondum Cognita ("the southern land not yet known"). Other names were Brasiliae Australis ("the southern Brazil")...
The Governorate of TerraAustralis or Governorate of Pedro Sancho de la Hoz was a Spanish Governorate of the Crown of Castile created in 1539 which was...
A Voyage to TerraAustralis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and...
English) is derived from the Latin australis, meaning "southern", and specifically from the hypothetical TerraAustralis postulated in pre-modern geography...
territories on maps. Alternatively, 'terra incognita' may also refer to the hypothesized continent TerraAustralis Incognita ("The unknown land of the...
regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as TerraAustralis. Flinders was involved in several voyages of discovery between 1791...
emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as TerraAustralis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic...
(pronounced /əˈstreɪliə/ in Australian English) is derived from the Latin TerraAustralis ("southern land"), a name used for a hypothetical continent in the...
author Geoffrey Chaucer. Belief by Europeans in the existence of a TerraAustralis—a vast continent in the far south of the globe to balance the northern...
coast of the Atlantic Ocean is widely accepted to be a version of TerraAustralis. The map is visually distinct from European portolan charts, populated...
terrae on Venus Terra, a highland on the Moon (Luna) Terrestrial (disambiguation), things related to land or the planet Earth TerraAustralis (southern land)...
colonized by Europeans much later. They were associated instead with the TerraAustralis that had been posited as a hypothetical southern continent. The Florentine...
finally determine whether there was any great southern landmass, or TerraAustralis. On his first voyage, Cook had demonstrated by circumnavigating New...
William Eisler and Bernard Smith, TerraAustralis: The Furthest Shore, Sydney, International Cultural Corporation of Australis, 1988, pp. 67–84. Image at: home...
Philippines and south-east China, later named the first Prefect Apostolic of TerraAustralis. Vittorio Riccio was born in Fiesole, near Florence, in 1621. He joined...
made; both Australia and Antarctica were associated instead with the TerraAustralis that had been posited as a hypothetical southern continent. In the...
south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of TerraAustralis. Cook then sailed to New Zealand where he mapped the complete coastline...
William Eisler and Bernard Smith, TerraAustralis: The Furthest Shore, Sydney, International Cultural Corporation of Australis, 1988, pp.67–84, p.81. Kees Zandvliet...
The TerraAustralis Orogen (TAO) was a late Neoproterozoic- to Paleozoic-age accretionary orogen that ringed the ancient, active southern margin of the...
and systematical, on the botany of TerraAustralis. Appendix III (pp. 537-612) in Flinders, A Voyage to TerraAustralis, Volume II; London: G. and W. Nicol...
suturing along the Mozambique Belt. The 18,000 km-long (11,000 mi) TerraAustralis Orogen developed along Gondwana's western, southern, and eastern margins...
Fuego was one or more islands rather than part of what was then called TerraAustralis. Francis Drake in 1578 and a Dutch East India Company expedition in...
Java Major, instead of from Champa, on or near an extension of the TerraAustralis. As explained by Sir Henry Yule, the editor of an English edition of...
Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. At 1,463 pages, it is the longest Australian work of...
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