Nuyts Land

[ nyoots ]

noun

1. early name of a region on the southern coast in S Australia, discovered by the Dutch in 1626–27.

Example Sentences

As soon as he approached the south coast of New Holland, he immediately began his examination of the coasts, islands, and inlets of that large portion of it, called Nuyts' Land; he particularly examined all that part of the coast, which lies between the limit of the discoveries of Nuyts and Vancouver, and the eastern extremity of Bass' Straits, where he met a French ship, employed on the same object.

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Coast from the Archipelago to the end of Nuyts' Land.

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A memoir was published at Amsterdam in 1718, "to prove, that NUYTS' LAND, being in the fifth climate, between 34� and 36� of latitude; it ought to be, like all other countries so situated, one of the most habitable, most rich, and most fertile parts of the world."

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If the extent of a thousand miles were taken to be in a straight line, and to commence at Cape Leeuwin, the end of Nuyts' Land would reach nearly to the longitude of 135� east of Greenwich; but if, as was probable, the windings of the shore were included, and a deduction made of one-sixth to one-seventh in the distance, then the Isles of St. Francis and St. Peter might be expected to be found between the 132nd and 133rd degrees of east longitude.

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Coast from the Archipelago to the end of Nuyts' Land.

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