A scarce map with early record of the naming of the continent, Australia.

The name Australia was popularised by the 1814 work , "A Voyage to Terra Australis", by the navigator Matthew Flinders. Despite its title (which reflected the view of the Admiralty), he used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Governor Lachlan Macquarie of New South Wales subsequently used it in his dispatches to England. In 1817 he recommended that it be officially adopted.

In 1824 the British Admiralty finally accepted that the continent should be known officially as Australia.

The name Australia was popularised by the 1814 work , "A Voyage to Terra Australis", by the navigator Matthew Flinders. Despite its title (which reflected the view of the Admiralty), he used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Governor Lachlan Macquarie of New South Wales subsequently used it in his dispatches to England. In 1817 he recommended that it be officially adopted.

Inset of a native pah taken from an engraving originally used in Cooks first voyage account and his circum navigation of New Zealand.