I don’t recall exact source, I believe it was AlternativeHistoryHub which entertained the idea of Green Antartica. But the point is, that the most southern land mass discovered were to be called Australia.
TacitusKadari on
For a long time, European cartographers believed there must have been a large land mass on the Southern hemisphere to balance out the large land masses in the north. They called this hypothetical continent Terra Australis, which is how Australia got its name. Europeans initially thought it would be way bigger… [fortunately for us all, it’s not](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7yuNp5YBY1Q).
So if Antarctica had been discovered before Australia, we’d be calling that Australia now.
AndyTheDragonborn on
Yippee this post was resurrected from the ban hammah! Excerpt I sent to mods to convince them. You might get clue on what is going on here.
The context: The name Australia (pronounced /əˈstreɪliÉ™/ in Australian English[2]) is derived from the Latin australis, meaning ‘southern’, and specifically from the hypothetical Terra Australis postulated in pre-modern geography.
So the most southern land mass discovered were to be called Australia.
I.E if it was discovered 200 years earlier
Antartica discovery 1820 and Australia discovered: 1606
incoherent1 on
We’re really going to miss weather like this when summer comes. I think the country is about to burn down again….
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200mio years earlier?
Will this affect the Dingo population?
I don’t recall exact source, I believe it was AlternativeHistoryHub which entertained the idea of Green Antartica. But the point is, that the most southern land mass discovered were to be called Australia.
For a long time, European cartographers believed there must have been a large land mass on the Southern hemisphere to balance out the large land masses in the north. They called this hypothetical continent Terra Australis, which is how Australia got its name. Europeans initially thought it would be way bigger… [fortunately for us all, it’s not](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7yuNp5YBY1Q).
So if Antarctica had been discovered before Australia, we’d be calling that Australia now.
Yippee this post was resurrected from the ban hammah! Excerpt I sent to mods to convince them. You might get clue on what is going on here.
The context: The name Australia (pronounced /əˈstreɪliÉ™/ in Australian English[2]) is derived from the Latin australis, meaning ‘southern’, and specifically from the hypothetical Terra Australis postulated in pre-modern geography.
So the most southern land mass discovered were to be called Australia.
I.E if it was discovered 200 years earlier
Antartica discovery 1820 and Australia discovered: 1606
We’re really going to miss weather like this when summer comes. I think the country is about to burn down again….