Naming places on the 'Southland': European place-naming practices from 1606 to 1803

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-31

  Tent, Jan ^a,b   Slatyer, Helen ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian National Placenames Survey   (Australia)

^c NONE

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EID: 68949103497     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610802662995     Document Type: Review

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3. When the Dutch started charting the west coast of the Australian continent in the early part of the seventeenth century, the land became known as New Holland. The unmapped eastern region continued to be identified as Terra Australis. These appellations remained until James Cook charted the east coast of the continent, which he named New South Wales. For a time, maps of the continent labelled the western half New Holland and the eastern half New South Wales. In 1804, Matthew Flinders suggested the name Australia on his chart of the circumnavigation of the continent. Governor Lachlan Macquarie used the term Australia in all his correspondence. In 1830, official recognition of the name Australia was granted. See for example: National Library of Australia, Australia in Maps: Great Maps in Australia's History from the National Library's Collection (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2007)
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6. See, for example, Geoffrey Badger, The Explorers of the Pacific (Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1988)
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31. John Cawte Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook Ibid., 149
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35. Marchant
36. Ibid
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39. See n 2
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