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Terra incognita   Listen
noun
Terra incognita  n.  An unknown land; unexplored country. "The enormous tracts lying outside China proper, still almost terrae incognitae."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Terra incognita" Quotes from Famous Books



... no less than two hundred and fifty species of land birds, almost all unknown elsewhere, and comprising some of the most curious and most beautiful of the feathered tribes. It is needless to say how much interest attaches to the far larger unknown portion of this great island, the greatest terra incognita that still remains for the naturalist to explore, and the only region where altogether new and unimagined forms of life may perhaps be found. There is now, I am happy to say, some chance that this great country will no longer remain absolutely unknown to us. The Dutch ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace



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