Australia

Australia
General information
Location	Pacific Ocean
Societal
Affiliation	Holland
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Rising in the East
Latest appearance	Rising in the East

"New Holland? Is Old Holland anywhere near Shanghai? Maybe he just got confused. Anyway, it could be worse. We could have veered off to Australia."
"You dolt! New Holland is Australia!"

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

Australia, also known as New Holland or Hollandia Nova, was the continent and country located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres. It included the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of New Guinea, and some other nearby islands. Its size gave it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast.

History

The continent was discovered in 1616 by the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog. Further voyages by Dutch ships explored the north coast of Australia between 1623 and 1636. In 1642, Abel Tasman sailed from Mauritius and on 24 November, sighted Tasmania, before discovering New Zealand and Fiji, and visiting New Guinea en route to Batavia. He named Tasmania Van Diemen's Land, after Anthony van Diemen, the Dutch East India Company's Governor General at Batavia, who had commissioned his voyage.

Tasman claimed Van Diemen's Land for Holland. In 1644 he made a second voyage, on which he mapped the north coast of Australia from Cape York westward. William Dampier, a former pirate, was the first Englishman to see Australia. He explored the north-west coast of Australia in 1688. He made another voyage in 1699, before returning to England.

The notorious pirate ship the Black Pearl sailed past the islands north of Australia during Jack Sparrow's search for the Shadow Gold. They were steered there by accident but it ended up well because they ran into the Empress, captained by the Chinese pirate Sao Feng, who knew where to find the Gold. While they were off the coast of Australia, they went for a brief search for the Deep Sea Opal.

By the war against piracy led by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, Australia (named "Hollandia Nova") was drawn onto a map of the world created in the EITC headquarters in Port Royal, along with a smaller map in the captain's cabin of the Endeavour.

Behind the scenes

Australia was first depicted and identified as "Hollandia Nova" on a map of the world in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The map would also be featured in the 2006-2007 reference books Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide, The Complete Visual Guide, and The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company. The location would first be identified as both "Australia" and "New Holland" when making its first appearance in Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East.

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, while Cutler Beckett talks to Elizabeth Swann about a "chest of value" among his desires, the script details the huge world map on the wall of Beckett's office, "-- incomplete, parts of South America, Africa, Australia only sketched." However, Australia was only identified as "Hollandia Nova" in the final cut of the film.

On June 2013, producer Jerry Bruckheimer responded to reports that at least part the fifth film, later titled Dead Men Tell No Tales, would be set in America, specifically New Orleans, Louisiana. Bruckheimer said, "We're certainly going to be filming in Louisiana because of the tax breaks and I think there might be a sequence there." On January 2014, directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg stated that the film would be shot in Puerto Rico and New Orleans by the end of the year. However, pre-production began in Australia by late 2014, and it was confirmed that filming was to take place in Australia in 2015. Filming took place exclusively in Queensland, Australia, as the largest production to ever shoot in the country, with Village Roadshow Studios officially confirmed as filming locations.

Geoffrey Rush (Hector Barbossa), Gemma Ward (Tamara), Brenton Thwaites (Henry Turner), Zoe Ventoura (Frances), and Ken Radley (Pig Kelly) were born in Australia.

Appearances

• Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East (First appearance) (First identified as New Holland and Australia)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Map only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Map only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Map only)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide (First identified as Hollandia Nova)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide
• The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company

External links

• Australia on Wikipedia
• Australia (continent) on Wikipedia
• Mainland Australia on Wikipedia
• New Holland (Australia) on Wikipedia

Notes and references

Locations in Pirates of the Caribbean
Africa Barbary Coast – Calabar – Egypt – Kerma – Slave Coast – Tripoli The Americas Boston – Canada – Florida – Louisiana – Mexico – New Orleans – North Carolina Panama – Peru – Savannah – Virginia – Yucatán Peninsula Asia Bombay – China – Hong Kong – India – Nippon – Shanghai – Singapore – Suvarnadurg The Bahamas Andros – Nassau – New Avalon – New Providence The Caribbean Antigua – Black rock island – Cuba – Devil's Triangle – Dominica – Guadeloupe – Hangman's Bay – Hispaniola Ile d'Etable de Porc – Isla De La Avaricia – Isla Cruces – Isla de Muerta – Isla de Pelegostos Martinique – Padres Del Fuego – Port Royal – Poseidon's Tomb Puerto Rico – Saint Martin – San Silvestre –Shipwreck Island – St. Lucia – Tortuga – Unnamed Island Europe Barcelona – Bristol – Cádiz – Cartagena – France – Gibraltar – Great Britain – Holland London – Marseille – Paris – Portugal – Scotland – Seville – Spain – Other locations Davy Jones' Locker – Farthest Gate – Ice Passage – Isla Sirena
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