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noun

an unknown or unexplored land, region, or subject.

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terra incognita (ˈtɛrə ɪnˈkɒɡnɪtə)

—n
	an unexplored or unknown land, region, or area for study

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terra incognita

"unknown or unexplored region," 1616, from L., lit. "unknown land," from terra (see terrain) + fem. of incognito (q.v.).

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"While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England."

-Henry David Thoreau

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