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Dark Continent

name

Etymology

A Victorian nickname, referring to the fact that little was known in the West about the interior of the continent.

Definitions

  1. Africa.

    • De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Bey of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing the isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
    • Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA