«Belonging to the South,Southern. Lat. Australis, from auster,south-wind.» (`O.E.D.') The word is rarely used in Australasiain its primary sense, but now as equivalent to Australian orAustralasian.
1823. Wentworth's Cambridge poem on `Australasia':
«And grant that yet an Austral Milton's song,
Pactolus-like, flow deep and rich along,
An Austral Shakespeare rise, whose living page
To Nature true may charm in every age;
And that an Austral Pindar daring soar,
Where not the Theban Eagle reach'd before.»
1825. Barron Field, `First Fruits of Australian Poetry,' Motto inGeographical Memoir of New South Wales, p. 485:
«I first adventure. Follow me who list;And be the second Austral harmonist.» Adapted from Bishop Hall.
1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 184:
«For this, midst Austral wilds I waken
Our British harp, feel whence I come,
Queen of the sea, too long forsaken,
Queen of the soul, my spirit's home.» – – Alien Song.
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 43:
«Every servant in this Austral Utopia thinks himself agentleman.»
1868. C. Harpur, `Poems' (ed. 1883), p. 215:
«How oft, in Austral woods, the parting day
Has gone through western golden gates away.»
1879. J. B. O'Hara, `Songs of the South,' p. 127:
«What though no weird and legendary lore
Invests our young, our golden Austral shore
With that romance the poet loves too well,
When Inspiration breathes her magic spell.»
1894. Ernest Favenc [Title]:
«Tales of the Austral Tropics.»
1896. [Title]:
«The Austral Wheel – – A Monthly Cycling Magazine, No. 1, Jan.»
1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53
«Our Austral Spring.» [Title of an article describing Spring in Australia.]