A National History of Australia, New Zealand the Adjacent Islands

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Excerpt from A National History of Australia, New Zealand the Adjacent Islands: From Their Discovery to the Centennial Era and From That Period to the Present Day The continental island in the Southern hemisphere, which is now universally known as Australia, was generally referred to by navigators and by writers on geographical subjects, prior to the second half of the seventeenth century, as the Terra Australis, or Great Southland, and from the year 1665 till the early part of the nineteenth century, as New Holland. Thence forth, it gradually came into possession of the name it now bears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.