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Terra Incognita
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What does Terra Incognita mean?
noun
- Land that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed.
- Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
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I presume, from the collection of Brydges and Anderson, Chiloe is pretty well-known, and southward begins a terra incognita.
Beyond the place where we slept last night, the country is completely terra incognita, for it was there that Captain Stokes turned back.
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There was no path beyond this campo; in fact, all beyond is terra incognita to the inhabitants of Villa Nova.
There is always and must be in every crime a terra incognita which, unless we could enter into the very soul of a man, we cannot hope to reach.
There were many men on board the Fram with a wealth of experience gained during years spent within the Arctic Circle, but to almost all of us the great Antarctic continent was a terra incognita.