When Australia was discovered by Europeans, Latin wasn't really of "far greater importance"
"The earliest recorded use of the word Australia in English was in 1625 in "A note of Australia del Espíritu Santo, written by Master Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, a corruption of the original Spanish name Austrialia del Espíritu Santo for an island in Vanuatu."
1625? Latin was mostly a dead language even then except in cases of the Catholic clergy and the more scholarly folk. It wasn't even used to refer to the continent we now know as Australia specifically until the late 1700s.
Either way, find me a place in Europe that has such a silly sounding name that wasn't named within the last 200 years. Remember, the EC is essentially the birthplace of the game, yet it has one of the lamest names. It's the East Continent/Island? East of -what-?
