Proper noun
(obsolete) The continent and the country of Australia.
A village, a civil parish and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgBanks used his influence with Earl Spencer to convince the Admiralty of the importance of an expedition to chart the coastline of New Holland. Source: Internet
Dampier contributed to knowledge of Australia's coastline through his two-volume publication A Voyage to New Holland (1703, 1709). Source: Internet
Bowen's map was based on one by Melchisédech Thévenot and published in Relations des Divers Voyages (1663), which apparently divided New Holland in the west from Terra Australis in the east by a latitude staff situated at 135° East. Source: Internet
Cook decided to survey the east coast of New Holland, the only major part of that continent that had not been charted by Dutch navigators. Source: Internet
Investigator set sail for New Holland on 18 July 1801. Source: Internet
Apart from the holotype supposedly from " New Holland ", a second specimen from the " Himalaya " may have existed (or still exist). Source: Internet