Terra Australis Incognita during the Age of Exploration: a window into the changing European world view

• Main Author: Marshall, Adam Aaron
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pepperdine Digital Commons 2010
• Subjects: Australia > Discovery and exploration; Dissertations (MA) > Humanities/Teacher Education; Pacific; South Pole; Southern Ocean; Terra Australis; South pole
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/etd/88; https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/context/etd/article/1087/viewcontent/download.pdf

For nearly two millennia some Europeans believed that a vast, wealthy, and peopled continent, Terra Australis Incognita, lay in the southern ocean, and acted as a stabilizing counterweight to the northern landmasses. The presence of this frontier, if only imaginary, represented geographical opportun...