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

An hour's drive away, at Tampa, is Busch Gardens' Dark Continent, which features not only exotic African beasts on a Serengeti-esque plain but also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lure of adventure, the lure of a strong and unscrupulous personality, and the lure of the Dark Continent, play their parts in this story.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred