They had also another object in view: in all the maps of the world of the sixteenth century, a great southern continent is laid down.
The prevailing belief of the time was in a great southern continent.
Quiros, a Spanish navigator, discovered in 1605 Espiritu Santo, the northern island of the New Hebrides, which he supposed to be a part of a great southern continent.
Great Southern Continent is due to a French navigator, le Testu, who returned in 1532 from the eastern seas with stories of a Greater Java which lay to the south of the islands of the Malay Archipelago.
His voyage was a splendid answer to the Spaniards, who believed themselves perfectly safe from interference in the waters of the "great Southern Ocean", and who forbade the rest of the world to trade with America and Australasia.
Then in one vessel he boldly sailed back across the Pacific to Peru, and thence made his way to Madrid, where he revealed to the Spanish Government the stories gathered from Malays regarding the existence of a great Southern Continent.
The first of these is remembered as the "Great Southern Comet.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great southern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
