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unusual facts about Terra incognita


Terra incognita

The equivalent on French maps would be terres inconnues (plural form), and some English maps may show Parts Unknown.



see also

Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater

By the twenty-second century the entire world east of the 30th meridian west and west of the 175th meridian east has become terra incognita to Pan-America.

Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote of this piece in 1932 that it was familiar ... — too familiar one is tempted to say, for most people think of Alkan, indeed only know him, as the composer of ‘Le Vent’, as they know only the Sibelius of the ‘Valse Triste’ or ‘Finlandia’; the great master of ‘Le festin d'Ésope’ and the Fourth Symphony respectively being completely a terra incognita.