Naraku
Draconarius
The name Terra Australis (land of the south) was applied to a hypothetical southern continent long before the real one was found.Yea! Hot Damn! It worked! I even figured out how to select only the pages I wanted to include. (There's a pop up in the pdf conversion menu that says, basically, how many pages do you want to include.) Me so smart!
A couple of points that have occurred to me since I've started this epic. Historical verisimilitude is important to me, but honestly I've relied more on my enthusiasm for Age of Sail naval fiction than actual research. I think during the era of the early British transportations to Australia that land was referred to as New South Wales, which is how King Diocletian had it, and how I should have referred to it too. I confess I did not do my due diligence and reread "Miss Berkeley's Voyage" before embarking Mina on her voyage. Now I'm afraid to go back and discover some glaring oversight concerning Berkeley family relationships. You are welcome to point them out to me if you discover any. Also I may have referred to the ship Mina is on as "Discipline," which is what I called it at first, but that seemed like such an unlikely name for a ship that I changed it to "Defiance." So if I've referred to Discipline anywhere as the name of the ship it's an oversight. Hope that won't take you out of the world I've tried to create here.
Responses are hoped for and welcome. Including constructive criticism and even suggestions on (historically accurate) punishments, and the direction you'd like this to go.
Thanks for reading.
The continent was originally referred to as New Holland, the name give to it by Abel Tasman. The name Australia - a shortened version of Terra Australis, along with the more awkward Australasia - was first used as an alternative in 1794. Explorer Matthew Flinders began pushing for it's official use in 1804. The Admiralty adopted the name officially in 1824
New South Wales was the name given to the prison colony established in 1788.
So, the continent could be referred to as Australia while New South Wales could be used to refer to the actual European settlement.