Australis

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Australis region depicted in Avatar: The Game.

Much of Australis can be seen in the lower half.

Australis is the large southern continent of Pandora.

Description

During mating season of the medusa, parts of Australis are blackened by the shadow of the medusa swarm as it swarms in a dance of interlocking tentacles.

Australis contains a number of lush jungles and rainforests, as well as vertigo-inducing mountains.^{[citation needed]} It is here that the RDA and the Avatar team are stationed.^{[citation needed]} Australis is also the home of the Na'vi Omatikaya clan.^{[citation needed]}

Creatures

• Arachnoid
• Medusa

In Project 880

WARNING - Article from the Project 880 script

The following information dates from the original script that James Cameron wrote in 1995. Information here may conflict with the established continuity.

The name of the continent appears briefly in Project 880 (the original script of Avatar) when Jake is seen flying over the Hallelujah Mountains. It is said the edge of Australis juts into the Equatorial Sea.

Trivia

• Australis originally had land of another continent on the east side of it, as seen in The Game. Avatar: The Way of Water: The Visual Dictionary retconned this so that it has ocean instead.
• Australis means "southern" in Latin.
• The name Australis is a possible reference to the continent of Australia, which is located in the Southern Hemisphere of Earth. Terra Australis (Latin for "southern land") was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century, from which Australia gets its name. It may also be a reference to Planitia Australis, a section of the planet Darwin IV created by Wayne Douglas Barlowe for his 1990 book "Expedition". Barlowe also worked on Avatar's creatures like the Direhorse and Great Leonopteryx.