Names by which Australia or the area in general was known · Jun 7, 10:31 AM
The immense prehistoric supercontinents of which Australia was part well over 200 million years ago:
The following are the names given by European geographers and mapmakers to the huge continent that they believed capped almost the entire southern hemisphere, and subsequently, to the landfalls actually sighted:
- Terra Incognita
- Temperata Antipodum Nobis Incognita
- Terra Incognita Secundum Ptolemeum
- Terra Australis Incognita
- Magallanica
- Terra Australis Nundum Cognita
- Maletur
- Beach
- Lucach
- Java le Grande
- Terre Australlé
- Landt van d’Eendracht
- Eendrachtsland
- I. de Edels Landt
- Landt van de Leeuwin
- ‘t’ Westeinde van Nova Guinea
- Landt van P.Nuyts
- G.F. de Wits Landt
- Nouvelle Hollande
- Carpentaria
- Zuid-landt
- Southern World
- Anthoony van Diemenslandt
- Hollandia Nova
- Terra del Zur
- Companis Nieve Nederland
- Great South Land
- Terres Australes
- New Holland
- New South Wales
- Terra Australis
- Australia
—Miriam Estensen