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Australis
A reference to Aurora Australis.
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aurora australis
Dawn of the southern wind, the southern lights.
Aurora Australis or aurora australis; southern lights
A pattern of differently colored lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky in the most southern parts of the world or the Southern Hemisphere.
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Terra Australis
Also known as, Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for "the unknown land of the South", it was an imaginary continent, appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century.

It was introduced by Aristotle. Aristotle's ideas were later expanded by Ptolemy, a Greek cartographer from the first century A.D., who believed that the Indian Ocean was enclosed on the south by land.

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aurora australis
"Southern lights" or colored lights in the night sky near the earth's magnetic pole in the southern hemisphere.
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