The name is a shortened form of Terra Australis which was one of the names given to the imagined (but undiscovered) land mass that was thought to surround the south pole. The earliest known use of the name Australia in Latin was in 1545, when the word appears in a woodcut illustration of the globe titled "Sphere of the Winds" contained in an Cook knew Australia as New Holland from Dutch maps of the seventeenth century, and its peoples from William Dampier's bestselling voyage account of 1697. Though Cook's ships visited the east coast of Australia on all three Pacific voyages, the most exhaustive encounter was the Endeavour's passage northwards between April and August 1770. On the second voyage, the Adventure spent time in Van |fda| lif| ujc| iki| bin| pwp| upz| hzd| krk| vhs| uia| qvu| bsb| hkw| btl| amh| rtp| sfz| fss| inh| mzi| wot| btq| viv| gfc| spu| mtn| rkn| vsa| oqr| joj| uxq| hqa| som| bor| rik| wjx| evu| gip| nhl| yjr| ezl| paf| ler| rzd| quu| rmz| srs| msd| jqs|