Continent Introductio", Waldseemüller noted that the earth is divided into four parts, Europe, Asia, Africa and the fourth part, which he named "America" after Amerigo Vespucci's first name. On the map, the word "America" was placed on part of South America. From the 16th century the English noun "continent" was derived from the term "continent land", meaning continuous or connected land and translated from the Latin "terra continens". The noun was used to mean "a connected or continuous tract of land" or mainland. It was not applied only to very large areas of land—in the 17th century, references were made to
The Last Continent The Last Continent The Last Continent is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-second book in his "Discworld" series. First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time travel such as the grandfather paradox and the Ray Bradbury short story "A Sound of Thunder". It also parodies Australian people and aspects of Australian culture, such as the "Crocodile Dundee", "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Mad Max" movies, the Australian beer XXXX, Vegemite, thongs, cork hats, the Peach Melba, "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo", the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, and the popular Australian songs "Waltzing Matilda",