33 ] Australia was later used in a 1693 translation of Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voyage de la Terre Australe , a 1676 French novel by Gabriel de Foigny , under the pen-name Jacques Sadeur. [ 34 ] Referring to the entire South Pacific region, Alexander Dalrymple used it in An Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean in 1771. By the end of the 18th century, the name was being used to refer specifically to Australia, with the botanists George Shaw and Sir James Smith writing of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia or New Holland " in their 1793 Zoology and Botany of New Holland , [ 35 ] and James Wilson including it on a 1799 chart. [ 36 ] The name Australia was popularised by the explorer Matthew Flinders , who pushed for it to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis , he was persuaded by his patron, Sir Joseph Banks , to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so, and published the following rationale: There is no probability, that any other detached body of land, of nearly equal extent, will ever be found in a more southern latitude; the name Terra Australis will, therefore, remain descriptive of the geographical importance of this country, and of its