Terra Nova

Terra Nova

Terra Nova or Terranova means "new land" or "new earth" in Latin, Galician and Portuguese. It can refer to:

In geography:

In seafaring:

  • HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259), a Canadian Restigouche-class destroyer escort
  • Terra Nova (ship), a sealing and then exploration ship, used in the Terra Nova Expedition
  • Terra Nova oil field, an oil field development project 350 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland
  • Terra Nova FPSO, a Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel located in the Terra Nova oil and gas field
  • Terra Nova Expedition, a British expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott with the purpose of undertaking scientific research and exploration

In Entertainment:

Television
  • "Terra Nova" (Enterprise episode), first season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Terra Nova (planet), one of the first Earth-colonized planets in the fictional Star Trek universe
Films
Games
  • Terra Nova, the second extra-solar planet to be colonized in the Mass Effect game series, and the focus of the 'Bring Down the Sky' downloaded content.
  • Terra Nova, an Earth-colonized planet and the setting of the Heavy Gear series of games
  • Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, a computer game
  • Terra Nova (board game), a strategy board game
  • November "Nova" Terra, a ghost agent and the protagonist of StarCraft: Ghost

In other fields:

  • Terra Nova (blog), a collaborative blog covering academic research in gaming
  • Terra Nova (newspaper), a weekly newspaper that covers top stories from the island of São Vicente in the Cape Verde islands
  • Terra Nova, a play by Ted Tally
  • "Terra Nova", a song written by James Taylor and Carly Simon, on James Taylor's album JT
  • Terra Nova, a British folk record label
  • Terra Nova Equipment, a British outdoor equipment company based in Derbyshire

As one word (TerraNova or Terranova):

  • Terranova (band), a German electronic group made up of Fetisch, Marco Meister and Kaos
  • TerraNova (test), a K-12 achievement test in the United States
  • Terranova (car), a SEAT electric concept car

See also


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  • Terra Nova — (Хавеа,Испания) Категория отеля: Адрес: La Falcia , 03730 Хавеа, Испания …   Каталог отелей

  • terra-nova — |ó| s. 2 g. Cachorro de raça, originário da Terra Nova, muito corpulento. • Plural: terra novas.   ‣ Etimologia: Terra Nova, topônimo …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

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