You’ve probably seen old maps showing a giant landmass in the Southern Hemisphere. This may sound a little ridiculous that I'm even bringing this up. I mean it’s obviously Antarctica. Or at least a mistaken merge of Antarctica and Australia….right? This land has held a few different names it’s history, but it’s most commonly known as Terra Australis, which is Latin for South Land or Land of the South.
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https://exhibits.stanford.edu/global-imaginary/feature/the-invention-of-terra-australis-incognita
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Ortelius
https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126360.html
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm
https://www.thoughtco.com/temperate-torrid-and-frigid-zones-1435361
https://www.bookvica.com/pages/books/588/fabian-gottlieb-thaddeus-von-bellingshausen-mikhail-petrovich-lazarev/first-russian-antarctic-expedition-during-which-the-continent-of-antarctica-was-discovered?soldItem=true
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“Meteorology” - Aristotle
“The Fourth Part of the World” - Toby Lester
“Over the Edge of the World” - Laurence Bergreen
“The Phantom Atlas” - Edward Brooke-Hitching
“Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent” - Avan Judd Stallard
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Ortelius First Atlas 1570 - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/77021
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