Alternate Names for Australia

[Mazintim89]

Isthereanythingherethatdoesntkillyou.

Some of the sheep.

 

[Datu Buwan]

Spain...

Spain: Suria since Sur means South or Meridonia from Meridonial. (From Google translate)

 

[Saphroneth]

This maybe a little off topic, but is there any aboriginal names for the continent?

Probably quite a lot, since there was no unification of the First Nations in any way.


Actually... "Antarctica" means literally "opposite the bear". Could you have "Encarmine" for the continent, named for the red surface?

 

[Flying Sorcerer]

I believe Portuguese cartographers called the southern land "Java La Grande".

 

[Jared]

Some of the sheep.

That's just what they want you to think...

 

[RichMill]

I believe Portuguese cartographers called the southern land "Java La Grande".

Even though this is suppose to be alternate British names, do you have a proper translation for "Java La Grande".

 

[Saphroneth]

Even this is suppose to be alternate British names, do you have a proper translation for "Java La Grande".

La Grande is just "the big". So "Big Java" or "Greater Java".
Actually...
Great Guinea? Greater Noetia (from Notus, god of the south wind) with OTL New Zealand being Lesser Noetia?

 

[Opunium]

Who is everybody struggling so much? Just New Holland

 

[Saphroneth]

Who is everybody struggling so much? Just New Holland

Seems a bit Dutch to me.

 

[RichMill]

Seems a bit Dutch to me.

So does "New Zealand", but the British retained that.

 

[Jonathan]

Doesn't Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, in 1521 claim the island for Spain and name it Philippine, in honour of King Philip II of Spain.

Or?

Is it not called Janszoonia after the Dutch Explorer who first saw the island and built the first settlement New Amsterdam.

 

[Saphroneth]

So does "New Zealand", but the British retained that.

Well, yes... though OP asks for them to be named by English discoverers.

 

[RichMill]

Well, yes... though OP asks for them to be named by English discoverers.

Well I guess I just didn't read it right.

In any case, does anyone know any English explorers who were sailing the Pacific during the 16th or early-17th centuries?

 

[wietze]

how about four ecks

 

[TimeJockey]

According to Robert Hughes, Locac, or Luchach, was one of the names given to a hypothetical Southern Continent before Australia was discovered. I can imagine the name being Latinized to something like "Lucacia."

Aha! That explains the reasoning behind something I've known for a while. I belong to the Society for Creative Anachronism, whose members divide the world up into a number of geographical kingdoms in which we play our roles. The kingdom that includes Australia and New Zealand is called Lochac. Now I guess I know why.

 

[Socrates]

Well I guess I just didn't read it right.

In any case, does anyone know any English explorers who were sailing the Pacific during the 16th or early-17th centuries?

There weren't any. The British only really got there in the 18th Century. James Cook is the one most associated with Australia.

 

[wietze]

can read up on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Pacific

 

[Driftless]

how about four ecks

As in XXXX?

 

[Saphroneth]

As in XXXX?

Yep, though the spelling means he's specifically thinking of The Last Continent by Sir Pterry.

 

[Simreeve]

In any case, does anyone know any English explorers who were sailing the Pacific during the 16th or early-17th centuries?

Drake?
And there was one who definitely visited the Moluccas during that period, too.