Terra incognita
''Terra incognita'' or ''terra ignota'' (Latin "unknown land"; ''incognita'' is stressed on its second syllable in Latin, but with variation in pronunciation in English) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or do ...
is a Latin phrase meaning 'unknown land', describing regions that have not been mapped or documented.
Terra incognita may also refer to:
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''Terra Incognita'' (Gojira album)
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''Terra Incognita'' (Juliette Lewis album), 2009
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''Terra Incognita'' (Chris Whitley album),
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Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 to Present'', a compilation of Boyd Rice music
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"Terra Incognita" (short story), a 1931 short story by Vladimir Nabokov
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Terra incognita arts organisation + publishers
terra incognita arts organisation was co-founded in East London in 1997 by Juliette Brown and Alana Jelinek initially as a grassroots visual arts organisation, that explored issues arising from lived experiences, particularly questions around ra ...
, a not-for-profit visual arts and curatorial organisation
* ''Terra Incognita'', an album (2011) by
Coronatus
Coronatus is a German gothic metal band, formed in Ludwigsburg in 1999.
Fronted by two female singers with contrasting voices and styles, the band has released ten studio albums since 2007. ''Recreatio Carminis'' and ''Secrets of Nature'' are t ...
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''Terra incognita'' (2002 film), a 2002 Lebanese-French drama film
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Terra Incognita (role-playing game)
''Terra Incognita'' is a role-playing game published by Grey Ghost Press in 2001.
Description
''Terra Incognita'' is a game based on the ''Fudge (role-playing game system), Fudge'' rules.
Publication history
''Terra Incognita'' was published b ...
, a 2001 role-playing game published
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''Terra Incognita'' (sculpture), a 1995 sculpture by Ilan Averbuch
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Terra Incognita
''Terra incognita'' or ''terra ignota'' (Latin "unknown land"; ''incognita'' is stressed on its second syllable in Latin, but with variation in pronunciation in English) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or do ...
'', fantasy series by
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', ''Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files literature#Novels, The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the ...
See also
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Tierra Incognita'', an Argentinian television series
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Terra ignota
''Terra Ignota'' is a quartet of science fiction novels by the American author Ada Palmer. The series consists of '' Too Like the Lightning'' (2016), '' Seven Surrenders'' (2017), '' The Will to Battle'' (2017), and ''Perhaps the Stars'' (202 ...
'' ("unfamiliar land")
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Terra nullius
''Terra nullius'' (, plural ''terrae nullius'') is a Latin expression meaning " nobody's land".
It was a principle sometimes used in international law to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it.
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'' ("no man's land")
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Terra Australis Incognita
(Latin: '"Southern Land'") was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that ...
'' ("The unknown land of the South")
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