Because Australia is called Australia

Did you ever wonder why is Australia called Australia? Well, I tell you that his name has several possible origins. The most accepted or common is the one that says it derives from Australis, from the south. Already in the Middle Ages there were certain legends about an unknown land in the south but it was all quite uncertain. Later, a Spanish navigator stumbled upon the New Hebrides archipelago (what is now Vanuatu), and called it Austrialia of the Holy Spirit, combining the dynasty that reigned in Spain, the house of Austria, with the word austral.

Also the Dutch navigators, around 1638, called the recently discovered land Australian, although the first time the name was used in the English language was in the translation of a French novel called The known southern land. The word Australia was used here and the same in later books, always to refer to the entire southern Pacific area. Finally, the name Australia is affirmed with the book A Trip to Terra Australia, from the navigator Flinders, in 1814. From then on the governor of New South Wales himself began to use that name in the documents he sent to England.