The name comes from the Latin terra australis incognita expression, meaning "unknown southern land". Before the discovery of Australia, this place is a suspected continent candidates, so the maps. After the discovery of the continent, the continent was named as Australia. The continent's name, after the British colonial times, of independence dominion era, the existence of receiving in political formations also passed, which leads to problems of interpretation, since the state of the entire continent does not include the mainland also includes the island of New Guinea and the wider New part Zealand.