When Aboriginal people showed up which they inevitably did they had to be subjected, incarcerated or eradicated: to keep the myth of terra nullius alive.
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Terra nullius
/ˈtɛɹə nʌˈlaɪ.əs/
Synonyms for "terra nullius" (1 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
unclaimed land
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Following the breakup of former Yugoslavia in 1991, seven new states emerged in the region with many border disputes that left some territories as terrae nullius, or no-man’s lands.
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This overgrown and unremarkable little swamp is terra nullius. Under vaguely defined and loosely enforced international law, the first person who claims sovereignty over terra nullius can have it.
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