Australia Felix

English Etymology From en Australia + en la felix fortunate, happy. Proposed as a name for parts of Victoria (Australia) explored by Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855).The White Hat Guide to Australian Place Names http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/History/PlaceNames.asp 9 January 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20150403200341/http://whitehat.com.au/Australia/History/PlaceNames.asp 3 April 2015 Proper noun Australia Felix en historical or literary A name for the comparatively lush areas of western Victoria, Australia. 1839, Thomas Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2, Gutenberg eBook #13033, I named this region Australia Felix, the better to distinguish it from the parched deserts of the interior country where we had wandered so unprofitably and so long. en 1851 Henry Saxelby Melville The Present State of Australia: Including New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and New Zealand 59 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8hEOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22Australia+Felix%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5-iTT_26FYaEmQX2mbn2AQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Australia%20Felix%22&f=false Victoria, known as Australia Felix, is bounded on the north and north-east by a straight line drawn from Cape How to the nearest source of the Murray River ; on the west by the eastern boundary of South Australia, or the 141° of east longitude, from the River Murray to the sea coast, and along the coast, including the adjacent islands, to Cape How. en 1917 w:Henry Handel Richardson Australia Felix References en Australia