The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terra incognita \Ter"ra in*cog"ni*ta\ [L.] An unknown land; unexplored country.
The enormous tracts lying outside China proper, still
almost terr[ae] incognit[ae].
--A. R.
Colquhoun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 land that has never been explored or mapped; chart territory. 2 By extension, ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
WordNet
n. an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown" [syn: unknown, unknown region]
Wikipedia
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 documented. The expression is believed to be first seen in Ptolemy's Geography c. 150. The term was reintroduced in the 15th century from the rediscovery of Ptolemy’s work during the Age of Discovery. The equivalent on French maps would be terres inconnues (plural form), and some English maps may show Parts Unknown.
Similarly, uncharted or unknown seas would be labeled mare incognitum, Latin for "unknown sea".
Terra Incognita is the debut album released by French death metal band Gojira. It was recorded and mixed by Laurentx Etxemendi. According to a text on the album inlay, the title ( Latin for " unknown land") refers to the area inside of each man, where, according to Hindu legend, Brahma hid the divinity that he had taken from humanity for the punishment of its abuse. In 2009, the album was re-released in a limited edition digipack including three bonus tracks. However, it is currently unavailable on Amazon.com's US website.
The man posing on the album cover is guitarist Christian Andreu.
The song 04 was made by Joe and Mario as a birthday present for their mother on her 50th birthday and was never intended to be released at all. The phonecall at the beginning of the song is the brothers uncle who left a voice-mail greeting his sister.
Terra incognita is a Latin phrase meaning 'unknown land', describing regions that have not been mapped or documented.
Terra incognita may also refer to:
- Terra Incognita (Gojira album)
- Terra Incognita (Juliette Lewis album)
- Terra Incognita (Chris Whitley album)
- Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 to Present, a compilation of Boyd Rice music
- Terra Incognita (short story), a 1931 short story by Vladimir Nabokov
- Terra incognita arts organisation + publishers, a not-for-profit visual arts and curatorial organisation
- Terra Incognita, an album (2011) by Coronatus
- Terra incognita (2002 film)
"Terra Incognita" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov that was first published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the author and his son, the story was published in English in The New Yorker in May, 1963, and later added to A Russian Beauty and Other Stories.
Terra Incognita is the third studio album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley.
It was produced primarily by Chris Whitley, Toby Wright, Mark Howard, and Dougie Bowne. The album was recorded primarily by Mark Howard (assisted by Wayne Lorenz) at Boulevard Teatro in Oxnard, California. It was mixed primarily by Toby Wright (assisted by John Seymour) at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
Additional recording was done by Dinky Dawson at the Best Western Highway Inn in Salem, Oregon ("As Flat as the Earth (exp)"), by Chris Whitley at the Sheffield Holiday Inn in Sheffield, Alabama ("Immortal Blues"), and by Toby Wright at Electric Lady Studios in New York City ("Alien").
Additional production and mixing on "Automatic" was done by Michael Barbiero at River Sound in New York City.
The album's title was inspired by Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic.
Terra incognita is a 2002 Lebanese-French drama film directed by Ghassan Salhab. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Terra Incognita is the debut full-length solo album by Juliette Lewis, released in August 2009. The album was made with Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta, and is her first album after parting with her previous backing band, the Licks, the album recorded with new backing band the New Romantiques. She said of the album: "‘Terra Incognita’ means unknown territory — and that’s where I wanted to go musically. The guitars are more wild and atmospheric. The groove is dark and deep and allows for a lot of sonic contrasts."
Terra Incognita is a role-playing game published by Grey Ghost Press in 2001.
Terra Incognita is an outdoor 1995 sculpture by Israeli artist Ilan Averbuch, located at the foot of the Broadway Bridge in Portland, Oregon.
Usage examples of "terra incognita".
I refer to the ocean called the Pacific, as the Portuguese have named it, in which surely lies the Austral Terra Incognita, of which only a few islands are known, a few hazy coasts, but still enough for us to assume that it conceals fabulous riches.
Would you, as an author of distinction and refinement, be interested in venturing into this terra incognita, et cetera, et cetera?
The Islamic Revolution and its aftermath had made Iran, once again, almost a terra incognita for Westerners.
On the following evening, she herself suggested that the team should take another shot at that utterly fantastic terra incognita of the multiple mind, jolting though it had been.
It was the terra incognita, the land unknown, the land without people, and it lay beyond the farthest boundary of the land claimed by Sartor, Hathis, Peramis and Drogue.