Zone of the Marvellous

  Taprobane, see Sri Lanka Taranaki, 106, 177, 178, 233

  Tarshish, 60, 70, 71, 85, 207

  Tartar (Mongol) empire/khanates, 41–42, 43–44, 45, 46, 47, 56

  Tasman Sea, 183, 186, 202, 214, 228, 237

  Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 92, 100–03, 104–11, 119, 132, 147, 160, 161, 162, 196

  Tasmania, 104, 156, 160, 163, 164–65, 166–67, 186–87, 199, 201, 218

  Taylor, Richard, 175–76

  Te Ika a Maui, 175

  Te Kooti Rikirangi, 177, 179

  Te Pahi, 170, 172

  Te Ua Haumēne (Horopapera), 177, 178–79

  Te Whiti o Rongomai (Erueti), 177, 178, 179

  Ternate, 69, 75, 89

  Terra Australis, 72, 134; see also Great South Land

  terra nullius, 184–87

  Thatcher, Margaret, 4

  The One Thousand and One Nights, 18, 58

  Tierra del Fuego, 76, 85, 105

  Timor, 58, 64, 75, 115, 121, 190, 201

  Tonga, 88, 107–08, 147, 149, 159, 160, 199

  Tordesillas line, 63, 69

  Tosswill, Frank, 226, 233

  trade, 27, 29–30, 34, 44, 45, 55, 61, 62, 63–64, 68, 75, 77, 82, 98, 102, 103, 104, 107, 111, 112, 134, 137, 150, 160, 175, 206, 242

  Traill, John, 199

  travel writing, 36, 48–49, 57–58, 93–94, 117–18

  Tregear, Edward, 156, 181

  The Aryan Maori, 181

  Trinidad (ship), 73, 75

  Tuamotu Islands, 73, 87, 128, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140

  Tūhoe, 231

  Tupaia, 139, 157–58, 183, 196–97

  Ulimaroa, 188, 196–99

  Ulysses, 37–39, 59; see also Odysseus

  United States of America, 3, 8, 182, 193, 194

  Uruk, 12, 13, 14, 18, 210

  Ussher, James, 168

  Uta-napishti, 14, 16–17, 19, 205

  Utopia, 93, 94–95, 96, 98, 133; see also More, Thomas

  utopias, 6, 7, 9, 10, 24, 92, 93–97, 126, 142, 214, 228; see also dystopias

  van Nierop, Dirck Rembrandtszoon, Eenige Oefeningen, 110

  Venice, 41, 44, 45, 46, 48, 62, 64

  Venus, transit of, 132, 146, 147

  Vespucci, Amerigo (Americus Vespucius), 95–96, 129

  Victoria (ship), 72, 75, 76

  Vietnam (Tonquin), 45, 81, 118

  Virgil, 37, 38, 41, 114

  Visscher, Francoijs, 104, 106, 111

  von Wellenburg, Matthäus Lang, 78

  Waldseemüller, Martin, 95

  The Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, 95

  Walker, John, 147–48

  Wallace, Alfred, 209

  Wallis, Samuel, 135–38, 140, 141, 143, 147, 150

  Waters of Death, 10, 11, 16, 18, 19, 234

  Watkin, Dr I. E., 199

  Wegener, Alfred, 191

  Whitten, Chris, 4

  Wilde, Oscar, 222

  William the Mosquito, 113, 126; see also Man Friday

  Williams, William Carlos, 6

  Wolf, Alan, 186–87

  Wolf, Friedrich, Professor Mamlock, 227

  Wood, Frances, 47

  Woollaston, Tosswill, 226, 227

  writing, 12–13, 19, 23, 47, 53, 205, 206, 238–39

  Xavier, Francis, 81–82, 103

  Yeats, W. B., 234

  Yonaguni, 188, 207–08

  Yupanqui, Túpac, 85

  Zealandia, 195–96, 201

  Zeehaen (ship), 104, 105 258