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Terra incognita. Terra incognita or terra ignota ( Latin "unknown land"; incognita is stressed on its second syllable in Latin, but with variation in pronunciation in English) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented. The expression is believed to be first seen in Ptolemy 's Geography c. 150.
Terra Australis (Latin: ' Southern Land ') was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that continental land in the Northern Hemisphere should be balanced by land in the Southern Hemisphere.
September 8, 2022. ( 2022-09-08) Tierra Incognita ( Spanish: Tierra Incógnita) is an Argentinian mystery - horror television series for children and adolescents, which is produced by Non Stop for the Walt Disney Company. [1] The eight-episode first season was released globally on Disney+ on September 8, 2022.
terra firma: solid earth: Often used to refer to the ground terra incognita: unknown land terra nova: new land: Latin name of Newfoundland (island portion of Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, capital- St. John's), also root of French name of same, Terre-Neuve terra nullius: land of none: That is, no man's land. A neutral or ...
"Terra Incognita" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov that was first published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the author and his son , the story was published in English in The New Yorker in May, 1963, and later added to A Russian Beauty and Other Stories .
They recorded the first Gondwanaland album, Terra Incognita, which was released on the small independent Hot Records label, together with a single, "Danger", in May. In May 1985 the group advertised for a drummer, "Gondwana Wana Drummer", and received only one response from an energetic multi-format percussionist, Eddy Duquemin.
Here be dragons. The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504. " Here be dragons " ( Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential ...
Indo-European equivalent. Dʰéǵʰōm. Albanian equivalent. Dhé [1] In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater [a] ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth. Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the Imperial era, [2] Tellus was the name of the original earth goddess in the religious ...