WordNet
n. an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown" [syn: unknown, terra incognita]
Usage examples of "unknown region".
The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.
This boy was once a creature with feathers who taunted me incessantly the raven who through some magic in the Unknown Region has now reverted to his birth state, that of being a human boy.
A direct route across the unknown region between Lake and McMurdo Sound was what we really ought to establish.
The excitement as to the Pole had at this time reached a pitch which can only be described as _fevered_, if this expresses the strange ecstasy and unrest which prevailed: for the scientific interest which men had felt in this unknown region was now, suddenly, a thousand times intensified by a new interest -- a tremendous _money_ interest.
The totally unknown region over which he was flying might produce any number of surprises.
Yet he was still capable of being excited about their arrival in this unknown region, and that was an excellent sign.