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Ecclesiastes, Book of, 13, 16, 233–34, 235
Edmond, Martin, 1, 2, 3–6, 8–9
Fenua Imi: The Pacific in History and Imaginary, 5
Egypt, 10, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29–30, 31, 51, 53, 55, 61, 62, 69, 98, 162, 174, 193, 194, 207, 225, 228, 229–30, 235
elephants, 2, 22, 43, 81, 190 254
Eliot, T. S., 53, 111, 227
Murder in the Cathedral, 227
Endeavour (ship), 90, 146, 148, 149, 150, 152, 157, 159, 197, 241
Endraacht, Land of, 101, 102; see also Australia
England, 1, 4, 8, 44, 47, 51, 52, 56, 90, 92, 94, 96, 113, 114, 116, 117, 130, 135, 140, 147, 153, 170, 171, 172, 176, 207, 222, 223
Enkidu, 13, 14, 16, 38, 142
Enrique, 74–75, 183
Epic of Gilgamesh, 10, 11–14, 19, 27, 34, 38–39, 142, 204, 234
Erasmus, Desiderius, 96, 97
Erewhon, 212, 214–15
Ernst, Max, 15
Erythraean Sea, 29, 61, 70
Espíritu Santo, 60, 88, 146, 149
Estada da Índia, 65, 69, 79
Étoile (ship), 140, 144
Eudoxus of Cyzicus, 29, 31
Euhemerus, 24–25
Sacred History (Hiera Anagraphê), 24
Euripides, The Trojan Woman, 223
Europe, 8, 20, 32, 33, 35, 40, 42, 51, 52, 55, 62, 64, 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 87, 93, 96, 97, 102, 129, 140, 141, 143, 150, 152, 153, 158, 159, 181, 182, 183, 211, 213, 214, 219
Fall, the, 13, 142, 159, 168
Faria, Belchior, 82
Fell, Barry, 180
Ferrier, Colin, 225, 231
Ferrier, William, 225
fiction, 3, 7, 8, 21, 25, 51, 58, 92, 94
fiction/non-fiction divide, 3, 8, 21, 23, 51, 58; see also non-fiction
Field, R. N., 227
Fiji, 88, 108, 139, 155, 156, 194, 197, 198
Fisher, George, 119–20
Flaubert, Gustave, 6
Flinders, Matthew, 164, 184
Flood, the, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 168, 203, 204, 205, 210
Fornander, Abraham, 156, 181
Foucault, Michel, 6–8
‘Des Espaces Autres’, 6
French Revolution, 50, 142, 144, 153
Galápagos Islands, 85, 114, 124, 198
Galileo, Galilei, 6, 56
Gallipoli, 34, 213, 214, 224
Garden of Eden, the, 13, 15, 18, 142, 159, 194
Gaveston, Piers, 51
Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), 89, 135, 198
Gilgamesh, 11, 12, 13–19, 24, 142, 188, 206, 234, 240, 244
Gilolo (Halmahera), 108, 116, 209
Gilsemans, Isaac, 104, 107, 111
Giolo, 116, 153
Goa, 61, 64, 69, 80, 81, 82, 84
Godard, Jean-Luc, 244
Golden Chersonese, 34, 60, 85, 190
Gomes, Estêvão, 73
Gondwanaland, 155, 191, 195, 196
Goulburn River, 216, 223–24
Graham Hancock, 188, 206–07
Graves, Robert, 23, 182
Great South Land (‘Terra Australis’), 10, 32, 33, 60, 72, 77, 85, 87, 90–91, 92, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 110, 119, 125, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 141–42, 146, 147, 149, 150, 155, 165, 183, 189, 199, 210, 214, 217, 236, 245; see also antipodes
Greece/Greeks, Ancient, 2, 3, 10, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 31, 37, 55, 61, 129, 142, 180, 193, 210, 229, 234, 239, 240
Hall, Fiona, 212, 241–43, 244
When my boat comes in …, 241, 242–43
Hall, Richard, Empires of the Monsoon, 61
Halley, Edmond, 110, 118, 128, 130–32, 147, 193
Catalogus Stellarum Australium, 130
General Chart of the Variation of the Compass, 131
Hanno, 27, 28
Harrison, John, 149
Hawai‘i, 135, 136, 155, 175, 177, 181, 182, 194, 197, 240
Heemskerck (ship), 104, 105
Herodotus, 26, 27, 58
heterotopias, 6–8, 24, 116, 153, 159, 189, 244
Heyerdahl, Thor, 198
Hika, Hongi, 170, 172, 173, 176
Hippalus, 29, 31
history, 6, 8, 51, 53, 83, 99, 142, 164, 239, 240, 242, 245
Homem, Lopo, 72
Homer, 32, 38, 58, 214
The Iliad, 13
The Odyssey, 13, 38, 58, 240
Horne, Donald, The Lucky Country, 243
Hythloday, Raphael, 94, 95, 96
Ibn ’Arabî, 39–40
Île de France, see Mauritius
imagination, 1, 4–5, 7, 8, 63, 183, 212, 235, 237, 244–45
immortality, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 25, 188, 205, 234, 244
India, 10, 18, 26, 29–30, 33, 34, 45, 55, 58, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69, 71, 75, 98, 115, 135, 150, 175, 180, 182, 190, 191, 194, 204, 206, 210
Indian Ocean, 10, 24, 29, 33, 34, 61, 72, 75, 77, 104, 120, 132, 133, 140, 146, 151, 192, 194, 205
‘Indians’, 1, 88, 89, 113, 174–75 see also Native Americans
Indus Valley, 18, 33, 192, 205, 206
Ishtar, 13, 14, 142
Islam, 34, 36, 39–40, 42, 43, 44, 48, 54, 57, 61, 62, 80, 201
Japan (Cipangu), 1, 34, 45, 55, 63, 81, 82, 83, 98, 102, 103, 104, 136, 174, 194, 207, 220
Java, 45, 64, 64, 109, 112, 201, 202, 204, 208
Jerusalem, 36, 38, 42, 44, 53, 229
John of Burgundy (John of the Beard), 50–51
De Pestilentia, 51
John, Prester, 42, 43
Jones, William, The Sanscrit Language, 180
Juan Fernández Islands, 113, 122, 123
Kākahi, Tohu, 179
Kendall, Thomas, 172, 176
Kerguelen Continent/Plateau, 194, 195, 196 255
Kimberley, 115, 164, 190, 204
Kimura, Masaaki, 207–08
Kī´ngi, Wiremu, 178
Kipling, Rudyard, Just So Stories, 2
Korokoro, 172, 173
Krusenstern, Adam Johann von, 152–53
Kublai Khan, 42, 44, 45
La Condamine, Charles Marie de, 145, 146
La Pérouse, comte de (Jean François de Galaup), 144, 163
Lake Eyre, 200, 201
‘Land of Gold’, 60, 155, 189, 245; see also antipodes; Great South Land
land wars (New Zealand Wars), 175, 214
Langsdorff, Georg, 128, 153
Las Islas Fortunatas, 22, 32–33
Last Glacial Maximum, 201, 202–03
Latini, Brunetto, Li Livres dou Trésor, 40, 53
Le Maire, Jacob, 105, 107, 110, 134
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 193, 194
Lee, Professor Samuel, A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand, 176
Lemuria, 191–92, 193, 194
Liège, 44, 47, 49, 50, 51
Lisbon, 64, 69, 79, 80, 82, 84, 120, 190
Locach, 45, 189, 190, 191
Lochore, R. A., 180
London, 3, 4, 49, 56, 93, 95, 116, 118, 120, 121, 123, 125, 128, 152, 169, 171, 175, 176, 214, 223
Lost Tribes of Israel, 156, 169, 174–75
Lowell, Robert, 223
Lubbock, Sir John, 180–81
Lucie-Smith, Edward, 222
M’oo, Queen, 193
McCahon, Colin, 212, 225–36, 239, 244
A painting for Uncle Frank, 233
I applied my mind, 235
I considered all acts of oppression, 235
Is there anything of which one can say, Look, this is New?, 235
On Building Bridges, 231
The emptiness of all endeavour: triptych, 234
Triple Takaka, 228
Truth from the King Country series, 230–31
Urewera mural, 231, 239
Victory over death 2, 232
McCahon, Ethel (née Ferrier)
McCahon, William, 225, 226
McCubbin, Frederick, 218
Mactan, 68, 74, 76, 77, 78
Madagascar, 34, 58, 115, 146, 191, 195, 205
Magellan, Ferdinand (Fernão de Magalhães), 60, 68
–70, 71–76, 77, 78, 87, 119, 128, 130, 183
Maguire, Marian, 212, 239–41
Malacca, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 69, 74, 80, 81, 84
Malay Peninsula/archipelago, 34, 60, 64, 80, 175, 201
Malley, Ern, 220, 221
Manasseh ben Israel, Rabbi, 174–75
Mandeville, Sir John, 37, 49–52, 53–54, 55, 56–57, 58
Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 37, 49, 51, 52–54, 55–56, 57, 94
Māori, 3, 105–06, 146, 151, 156, 161, 167, 169–70, 170–74, 175–79, 179–82, 183, 184, 188, 197, 198, 209, 214, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 237, 238, 240
prophetic movements, 176–79
maps, 31, 32–35, 67, 72, 90, 95, 101, 106, 110, 116, 118, 139, 189, 190, 191, 197, 201
Surrealist Map of the World, 34; see also Ptolemy, Geographia
Mariana Islands, 73–74, 135, 209
Marquesas Islands, 87, 128, 135, 139, 143, 147, 149, 153, 197, 198, 209
Marsden, Samuel, 156, 168–70, 170, 171–74, 175, 176, 183
Matteo, Giovanni (‘the Cretan’), 190–91
Mauritius (Île de France), 34, 100, 104, 140, 146
Maximilian of Transylvania, 77–78
De Moluccis Insulis, 78
Mediterranean Sea, 3, 26, 27, 33, 61, 70, 71, 207, 211
Melbourne, 185, 199, 216, 217, 218, 219
Mendes Pinto, Fernão, 79–82, 82–84
The Travels of Mendes Pinto (The Peregrination), 79, 82–84
Mesopotamia, 38, 180, 204
Micronesia, 63, 182, 209
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, 60
Mindanao, 75, 114, 116, 204
Moluccas, 63, 64, 69, 70, 74, 75, 84, 102, 111, 116
Mongol empire, see Tartar empire
Mooneyham, J. R., 195
More, Thomas, 92, 93–97, 98, 133
Utopia, 93–97
Moseley, Charles, 53, 54
Mount Purgatory, 36, 38, 41, 55, 98, 149, 191
Mu, 188, 193, 194
Müller, Max, 180
myth, 2–3, 22, 24–25, 100, 138, 144, 156, 161, 180, 181, 204, 205, 213, 245
Native Americans, 174–75
navigation, 26, 100–01, 110, 131, 147, 148
New Guinea, 63, 85, 87, 89, 90, 101, 102, 108, 121, 123, 201, 202, 204, 221
New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 60, 90, 146, 149
New Holland, see Australia
New Jerusalem, 88, 90, 91, 149
New South Wales, 149, 158, 164, 168, 171, 173, 185, 222, 243
New York, 3, 4, 192, 223, 224
New Zealand, 1, 4, 105, 110, 111, 126, 139, 146, 147, 149, 150–51, 154, 155, 157, 161, 169, 170, 171–74, 175–79, 181, 183, 185, 186, 191, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 205, 212, 213–15, 221, 225, 228, 230, 231, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243
‘God’s Own Country’/‘Godzone’, 243
Ngāpuhi, 170, 176
Ngāti Tūmatakokiri, 105–06
Nicholas, J. L., 175, 183–84
Narrative of Voyage to New Zealand, 175
Nineveh, 11, 12, 19, 27
Nolan, Cynthia, 222, 223
Nolan, Elizabeth (née Paterson), 218
Nolan, Sidney (father), 216
Nolan, Sidney, 212, 215–24, 225, 226, 227, 228, 236, 237, 244
Abandoned Mine, 222
Boy with the Moon (Moonboy), 219–20
Burke and Wills series, 224
Desert Storm, 224
Ern Malley, 220
Head of Rimbaud, 217
Head of Soldier, 220
Inferno panels, 223
Kiewa Valley, 217
Ned Kelly series, 219, 220, 221–22, 223, 224
Paradise Garden, 244
Riverbend series, 223–24
Self Portrait, 220
Tent, 219
non-fiction, 3, 5, 21, 25, 51, 58, 94, 100; see also fiction; travel writing
Norfolk Island, 163, 171, 172, 197, 198
Nott, Henry, 154, 159
Odysseus (Ulysses), 13, 15, 37–38, 39, 59, 240, 241
Ophir, 60, 70–71, 85, 207
Oppenheimer, Stephen, 188, 203–05
Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia, 203
orichalcum, 21–22, 244 ‘Oro, 138–39, 140, 257, 177
Oxford Group (Moral Rearmament Group), 226–27
Oxford, 67, 116, 122
Pacific Ocean/region, 3, 5, 10, 34, 36, 38, 41, 63, 71, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 92, 98, 103, 106, 110, 111, 114, 118, 119, 124, 123, 133, 134, 135, 136, 140, 142, 144, 147, 149, 150, 151, 154, 157, 159, 170, 175, 181, 183, 191, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 200, 209, 240, 241
naming of, 173
Pai Mārire (Hau Hau), 177, 179, 239
Palaesimundu, 30, 33; see also Sri Lanka
Panchaea, 10, 24–26
Papahurihia (Te Atua Wera), 176–77, 179
Paramore (ship), 130, 131
Parkinson, Sydney, 150
parrots, 154, 155, 190–91, 196
Parrots, Land of 85, 189, 190–91; see also Australia
Paterson, Elizabeth, see Nolan, Elizabeth
Paterson, John Ford, 218
Pepys, Samuel, 118
Percy Smith, Stephenson, 182
Péreire, Jacob Rodrigue, 145, 162
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 29–30, 31, 34
Péron, François Auguste, 161–62
Peru, 85, 86, 87, 90, 98, 101, 151, 238
Pessoa, Fernando, 8, 65
Pessoa, Pero, 65
Philippines, 34, 68, 74, 86, 87, 114, 115, 116, 183, 201
Picasso, Pablo, 218, 219
Pigafetta, Antonio, 73, 76, 77, 78
Relazione del Primo Viaggio Intorno Al Mondo (Report on the First Voyage Around the World), 77
Pillars of Herakles, 20, 26, 27, 28, 38
piracy, 7, 63, 80, 81, 82, 84, 111–12, 113, 117, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 133, 159, 172
Pires, Tomé, 60, 63–67, 67–68, 79, 80
Suma Oriental, 63, 65, 67–68, 79
Planudes, Maximus, 32
Plato, 10, 19–22, 23–24, 25, 93, 96, 98, 99, 210, 228
Critias, 19
Republic, 22, 96
Timaeus, 19, 20, 228
Pleenperrner (Mother Brown), 186
Pliny the Elder, 28, 54
Polo, Maffeo, 41, 42, 44–46, 47, 62
Polo, Marco (uncle), 41
Polo, Marco, 41–49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 62, 67, 85, 190
Le Divisament dou Monde (The Description of the World), 46, 48–49, 54, 57
Polo, Niccolò, 41, 42, 44–46, 47, 62
Polynesian peoples, 87, 139, 143, 153, 156, 169, 175, 179–84, 196, 197–99, 204, 209, 215, 240
Port Jackson, 128, 154, 163, 165, 166, 169, 170, 171, 184
Portuguese exploration, 55, 59, 60, 61–63, 64, 65–66, 69–70, 71–72, 74, 77, 83, 84, 87, 91, 93, 101, 102, 106, 129, 163; see also Spanish exploration; Tordesillas line
Pound, Ezra, 15, 244
Pound, Francis, 235
Prester John, see John, Prester
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), 10, 31, 32–35, 40, 72, 85, 155
Almagest, 32, 40
Geographia, 31, 32–35, 40
Puerto San Julián, 72, 73
Quast, Matthijs Hendrickson, 102, 103, 119
Ramusio, John Baptist, 45–46, 67
Rapanui, see Easter Island Rātana, Wiremu, 176
Rawley, William, 97–98, 99, 100
Red Sea, 19, 24, 29, 33, 62, 70
Reed, John, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222
Reed, Sunday (née Baillieu), 218, 219, 221, 222
Renault, Mary, The King Must Die, 2
The Bull from the Sea, 2
Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich, 244–45
Rimbaud, Arthur, 152, 217, 221
‘The Drunken Boat’, 152
Robarts, Edward, 152–53
Roberts, Tom, 218
Rodrigues, Francisco, 67
Roebuck (ship), 119, 120, 121, 123, 126, 130
Rogers, Woodes, 123–24
Roggeveen, Jacob, 133–34
Rongopai, 238, 239
Royal Society, 100, 117, 118, 130, 131, 147, 148
Ruatara, 170–74
Rustichello of Pisa, 46–47, 48, 52, 57
Roman de Roi Artus (Compilation), 46–47
Rutherford, Ernest, 195
Ryukyu (Lequeos) Islands, 64, 70, 207–208
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, 130
Sahul, 201, 202, 204
San Antonio (ship), 71, 72, 73
Santa Anna (ship), 170–71
Santa Cruz, 86, 87, 88, 89, 133
science, 25, 99, 118, 119, 120, 147, 188, 192, 205
Sclater, Philip, 191–92
scurvy, 75, 121, 123, 137, 151
Seddon, Richard John, 243
Selkirk, Alexander, 92, 122, 123, 124, 126
Serendip, 33; see also Sri Lanka Serrão, Francisco, 69, 75
Seville, 40, 70, 76, 77
Sha Naqba Imuru, see Epic of Gilgamesh
Shakespeare, William, 57
Shamhat, 13, 14, 142
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, A Defence of Poetry, 3
Shiduri, 15, 16
Silver, John, 127
Sinbad the Sailor, 18, 58, 190
Sinclair, John, 219 257
Sind, 29, 33, 206
Sîn-leqe-unninni, 12
Société des Observateurs de l’Homme, 162
Society Islands, 134, 135, 139
Socrates, 19–22, 23
Solander, Daniel, 151
Solomon Islands, 85, 86, 87, 104, 105, 133, 135, 146
Solon, 19, 20, 22, 23
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 234
South China Sea, 115, 201, 208
South East Asia, 18, 34, 61, 71, 80, 182, 183, 188, 190, 204, 205, 209, 210
South Seas, 24; see also antipodes, Pacific Ocean/region
Spanish exploration, 29, 59, 62–63, 69, 73, 75, 76, 78, 84, 85–86, 87, 88–91, 98, 103, 121, 135, 238; see also Portugese exploration; Tordesillas line
Spate, Oskar, 125, 134, 143
Spice Islands, 60, 63, 69, 75
Sri Lanka, 18, 24, 30, 33–34, 45, 58, 64, 108, 195
St George (ship), 122, 123
St Kilda, 199, 216, 219
Staten Landt, 105, 106, 107, 110, 119; see also New Zealand
Steinberg, Saul, 224
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island, 127
Strabo, 29, 31
Stradling, Thomas, 122, 123
Sumatra, 34, 45, 60, 65, 80, 103, 108, 115, 116, 175, 201, 202
Sumer/Sumerians, 11, 12, 204, 205, 206, 229
Sunda, 188, 201, 202, 204, 210
Swan, Charles, 114
Swift, Jonathan, 57, 126, 142
Gulliver’s Travels, 126
Sydney, 5, 91, 154, 156, 165, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 176, 184, 219, 221, 222, 241, 243, 245
Tahiti, 1, 128, 134, 135–38, 138–40, 140–44, 144–46, 147, 149, 150, 152, 154, 157, 159, 169, 177, 189, 197, 198, 209