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.[1]
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]
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In Project 880[]
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 is a possible reference to the continent of Australia, which is located in the Southern Hemisphere of Earth.
- Australis means "southern" in Latin.
- Another possible reference is Terra Australis (Latin for "southern land"), a hypothesized continent appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century.