Editing Terra Australis (section)

==Change of name==
During the 18th century, today's [[Australia]] was not conflated with ''Terra Australis'', as it sometimes was in the 20th century. [[James Cook|Captain Cook]] and his contemporaries knew that the sixth continent (today's Australia), which they called [[New Holland (Australia)|''New Holland'']], was entirely separate from the imagined (but still undiscovered) seventh continent (today's [[Antarctica]]).

In the 19th century, the colonial authorities in [[Sydney]] re-allocated the name ''Australia'' to New Holland and its centuries-old Dutch name eventually fell into disuse. Meanwhile, having lost its name of ''Australia'', the south polar continent was nameless for decades  until ''Antarctica'' was coined in the 1890s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cameron-Ash |first1=M. |title=Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage |date=2018 |publisher=Rosenberg |location=Sydney |isbn=978-0-648-04396-6 |pages=19–20}}</ref>

In the early 19th century, [[European maritime exploration of Australia|British explorer]] [[Matthew Flinders]] popularized the [[Name of Australia|naming of Australia]] after ''Terra Australis'', giving his rationale that there was "no probability" of finding any significant land mass anywhere more south than Australia.<ref name="Flinders">{{cite Q |Q19027014 |mode=cs1 |last=Flinders |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Flinders }}</ref>{{rp |loc=Introduction |p=[https://archive.org/details/voyageTerraAustv1Flin/page/iii iii] }} The continent that would come to be named [[Antarctica]] would be explored decades after Flinders' 1814 book on Australia, which he had titled ''[[A Voyage to Terra Australis]]'', and after his naming switch had gained popularity.