Editing Terra Australis (section)

==Names==
Other names for the hypothetical continent have included {{lang |la |Terra Australis Ignota}} and {{lang |la |Terra Australis Incognita}} ({{translation |the unknown land of the south}}), and {{lang |la |Terra Australis Nondum Cognita}} ({{translation |the southern land not yet known}}). Other names were {{lang |la |Brasiliae Australis}} ({{translation |the southern Brazil}}),<ref>Johannes Schoener, [{{GBurl|id=EYMEAAAAQAAJ}} ''Opusculum Geographicum''], Norimberga, [1533], f.21v.</ref> and {{lang |la |Magellanica}} ({{translation |the land of [[Ferdinand Magellan|Magellan]]}}).<ref>''ORBIS TERRARUM''; explanatory text on the reverse of Ortelius' world map ''Tabula Orbis Terrarum'' (1570).</ref> [[Matthias Ringmann]] called it the {{lang |la |Ora antarctica}} ({{translation |antarctic land}}) in 1505,<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Ringmann |editor-first=Matthias |editor-link=Matthias Ringmann |year=1505 |title=De Ora antarctica per regem Portugallie pridem inventa |trans-title=The antarctic country discovered some time since by the King of Portugal |language=la |publisher=Mathiam Hupfuff |location=Strassburg |url=https://archive.org/details/deoraantarcticap00vesp/page/n7 |access-date=2025-05-20 |oclc=1042939481 |ol=OL25611154M }}</ref> and [[Franciscus Monachus]] called it the ''Australis orę'' (Austral country).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/news/| title = "Orę", i.e., "orae"; Robert J. King, "Franciscus Monachus and the Antipodes", ''Map Matters,'' Issue 38, Spring 2019, pp.27-32.| access-date = 31 July 2020| archive-date = 13 August 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813030104/http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/news/| url-status = dead}}</ref> In medieval times it was known as the [[Antipodes]].

The French writer [[Guillaume Postel]] proposed the name ''Chasdia'', after [[Noah]]'s grandson [[Cush (Bible)|Cush]], for the hypothetical continent on the basis of it having dark-skinned inhabitants (Cush's traditional descendants).<ref>{{Cite book |title=Mapping our world: terra incognita to Australia |date=2013 |publisher=National Library of Australia |isbn=978-0-642-27809-8 |editor-last=National library of Australia |location=Canberra}}</ref>