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The Australis was an Australian automobile manufactured in Leichhardt, New South Wales, from 1896 to 1906 by G.W. & G. Wood. The company began production with a motor driven bicycle in 1895. Only three Australis vehicles were produced: a second motor driven bicycle in 1896, a single-cylinder 3 hp two-seat light buggy in 1900 and a 7 hp (5 kW) twin-cylinder light buggy in 1906. The original engine from the 1900 Australis buggy is now part of the Powerhouse Museum collection and is thought to be the oldest surviving Australian built engine.
Australis (Latin for southern or of the south) may refer to:
- Alula Australis, a star system in the constellation Ursa Major
- Talitha Australis, a binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
- Tania Australis, a star in the constellation Ursa Major
- Terra Australis
- The Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights
In music:
- Australis (musical project), the new age music project created in 2004 by Oscar Aguayo
In computers:
- The codename for the updated interface of Mozilla Firefox, first appearing in version 29
In media:
- Australis Media, a former group participating in the Galaxy television channel
In business:
- Australis Aquaculture, LLC, a sustainable seafood company based in Turners Falls, MA
In video games:
- A type of enemy in the video game Dino Crisis 3
In transportation:
- SS America (1940), a passenger ship that sailed under the name Australis from 1964 to 1978
- Australis Motors, an Australian automobile manufactured from 1897 to 1907
In biology:
- Australis (elm hybrid), a type of tree
- Commelina virginica L. var. australis, a synonym for Commelina erecta
Australis is the name for the Utah based electronic new age musical project by multifaceted Peruvian-born composer/producer Oscar Aguayo, although this name is often used to refer to him directly.
He named his project "Australis" (which in Latin literally means "from the South") because that word symbolizes his origins and the places where he received his primary musical influences.
Usage examples of "australis".
Austral lands bear an inscription somewhat surprising: The simply cordiform map of Finaeus inscribes there: Terra Australis nuper inventa, sed nondum plene examinata.
Early Voyages to Terra Australis, which has attempted a systematic investigation into the earliest discoveries of the great Southern Island-Continent, and the first faint indications of knowledge that such a land existed.
A strait between New Guinea and the Terra Australis is another feature of this type.
The name given to this roughly delineated Terra Australis is Patalie Regio, meaning, according to the Vicomte de Santarem, who derives it from the Sanskrit, the nether region, i.
Schoner to see at a glance that it can only be the region on which the Nuremberg mathematician has inscribed, in 1533, the legend: Terra Australis recenter inventa, sed nondum plene cognita.
Terra Australis we must go back at least three centuries, when the theory of its existence was in high favour among them.
The Australis Terra begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is maintained by some to be of so great an extent that, if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world.
Strait, to that part of Terra Australis a little to the west and south of Cape York.
Terra Australis that is represented there, discovered and charted before the arrival of the Dutch in Australasian regions.
Terra Australis was presented to King James the First by Sir William Courteen.
South parts of ye world called Terra Australis, incognita, extending Eastwards and Westwards from ye Straights of Le Maire, together with all ye adjacente Islands, etc.
Great South Land, which was only the translation of the previous name, Terra Australis and Terra del Zur, began calling it Nova Hollandia and Nieuw Holland, a name transferred by them to the southern continent from the icy regions they had explored in the Arctic Seas when attempting to reach India and the Spice Islands by a north-east passage.
New Guinea, which he believed to form part of Terra Australis, and there to make the like examination.
I no sooner looked into this more ample statement than I detected the work of an impostor, and as, in the preparation of my work on Early Voyages to Terra Australis, my memory had become charged with all the details of the subject, I was able to trace not only the documents which, as he was not a discoverer in reality, supplied him with the materials for being a discoverer on paper, but also blunders in those documents of which I was cognizant, but he had not been, and which, as he had been himself deceived, clearly betrayed the utter falsity of his statements.
Nova Guinea and Terra Australis, and this is actually the latitude of Torres Strait.