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

And so, little by little, the sun rises upon the Dark Continent.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)