Messerschmidt set out in 1720 on his exploration the first by a naturalist in this "terra incognita", which came to last for seven years.
But it is worth persevering because this is one of the first accounts of an island that was then terra incognita.
Terra incognita and all that.
During the 19th century "terra incognita" disappeared from maps, since both the coastlines and the inner parts of the continents had been fully explored.
I believe that one of the tragedies of the position is that the two countries are so much terra incognita to each other.
So cribbed, cabined and circumscribed were their lives that the world outside their valleys was entirely terra incognita, unknown territory, to them.
It is absolutely terra incognita in regard to many of the provisions that it will apply.
I have no intention of wandering idly into legal fields which are terra incognita to me and out of bounds.
