Australia Felix

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    A name for the comparatively lush areas of western Victoria, Australia.

    历史 文学

    1839, Thomas Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2, Gutenberg eBook #13033, I named this region Australia Felix, the better to distinguish it from the parched deserts of the interior country where we had wandered so unprofitably and so long.

词源

From Australia + Latin felix (“fortunate, happy”). Proposed as a name for parts of Victoria (Australia) explored by Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855).

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