. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . BOOK VIITHE COLONIAL WOELD CHAPTER ITHE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION Owing to its position at the antipodes of the civilised world, Australia hasbeen longer a terra incognita than any other region of the same extent. Itsfirst discovery is involved in considerable doubt, from confusion of the nameswhich were applied by the earlier navigators and geographers to the Austral-asian coasts. The
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . BOOK VIITHE COLONIAL WOELD CHAPTER ITHE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION Owing to its position at the antipodes of the civilised world, Australia hasbeen longer a terra incognita than any other region of the same extent. Itsfirst discovery is involved in considerable doubt, from confusion of the nameswhich were applied by the earlier navigators and geographers to the Austral-asian coasts. The ancients were somehow impressed with the idea of a Terra Australiswhich was one day to be revealed. The Phoenician mariners had pushedthrough the outlet of the Red Sea to eastern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and thecoasts of India and Sumatra. But the geographer Ptolemy, in the 2nd cen-tury, still conceived the Indian Ocean to be an inland sea, bounded on thesouth by an unknown land, which connected the Chersonesus Aurea (MalayPeninsula) with the promontory of Prasum in eastern Africa. This erroneousnotion prevailed in mediaeval Europe, although some travellers like Mar
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