Did you know : early explorers to Australia sent by some sort of Austrian empire, coined "Australia"

Question

1606

Captain de Quiros’s actual words had been "La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo" - believing he had reached the land he had been seeking - Terra Australis

Quiros stoutly professed that he had discovered the Great Southern Continent, and in 1610 a narrative of the voyage was published wherein it was announced that 'all this region of the south as far as the Pole' should be called 'Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.'

Answer 1

Terra Australias  means unknown land in latin

Answer 2

While "Terra Australis" was in use for some time, the name "Australia" was first used by Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. "Austral" means south just as "boreal" means north. (The aurorae are the aurora australis and the aurora borealis)

There has never been a land bridge between Australia and Asia. The first human arrivals had to come by boat or raft. There is an ocean boundary through Indonesia, known as the Wallace Line, that separates the Asian fauna from the Australian fauna. This has always been a water barrier. It was narrower during the ice ages but it was still there. If there was no barrier, Australia would have the Asian placental mammals rather than its own marsupials.

Answer 3

Nope, it's a constructed word based on the latin for 'south'.

Answer 4

Don't mean to come across as a smartass, but Terra Australis was the name given to Australia prior to New Holland. Everyone suspected what our indigenous people already knew... There was a REALLY big land mass down south!

Terra Australis (also: Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for "the unknown land of the South")

Chomboso... read the question, the guy wants to know where the modern name for Australia came from, not it's inhabitants.

BTW, the first known people where of Polynesian descent, not Indian.

Answer 5

That is all well and good but there is some proof around (unfortunately i can't remember it though so if want to know look it up or something.) That the Aborigines were the first colonists who came over from India in one of the mini Ice ages when the ocean froze. (there are such things as displayed in the "Incovinient  truth"). and they walked most of the way.

Answer 6

Here we go again .. I am in Australia, born and bred .. the name Australia comes from  the Latin "Terra Australis"  -- meaning "the Great Southland

the name Austria is the anglicised version of the "Osterreich" meaning "the eastern empire"

Answer 7

No it comes from the Dutch term Terra Australias meaning it was not inhabited.