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| The Latin australis means southern. The Portugese navigator Pedro Fernaandez de Quiros reached the New Hebrides in 1606 and gave the name Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (Southland of the Holy Spirit) to all of the Southern regions as far as the South Pole. The earliest recorded use of the present form Australia appears to have been in Alexander Dalrympole's collection of Voyages of the South Seas (1770). | |
