Dark Continent

British  

noun

1. a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored

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Example Sentences

Zoo animals from New York meet others of their species for the first time after crash-landing on the Dark Continent.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019

Was it some kind of transplanting of Manifest Destiny from the US west to the so-called Dark Continent?

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2017

Mazower is professor of history at Columbia and author of Dark Continent, the acclaimed study of the forces that shaped 20th century Europe.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2016

A camera artist who had a unique mastery of color, Elisofon had a particular passion for the Dark Continent and its artifacts, which he lovingly recorded in his 1958 book The Sculpture of Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your time has been well spent in that huge Dark Continent, And all England's word to-day is, "Welcome, Stanley!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. by Various