Terra Nova Explained

Terra Nova (literally "New Earth" or "New Land") may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

• Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land
• Terra Nova Islands, a pair of small phantom islands near Antarctica
• Mount Terra Nova, a snow-covered mountain (2,130 m)

Brazil

• Terra Nova, Bahia, a municipality in Bahia
• Terra Nova, Pernambuco, a municipality in Pernambuco
• Terra Nova do Norte, a municipality in Mato Grosso
• Terra Nova River (Pernambuco), a river of Pernambuco

Canada

• Terra Nova Adventure Park, a playground in Richmond, British Columbia
• Newfoundland and Labrador, a province
  • Newfoundland (island), the island portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, known as Terra Nova in Portuguese
  • Terra Nova (electoral district), Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Terra Nova, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Terra Nova National Park, a national park in Newfoundland
  • Terra Nova River, a Newfoundland river
  • Terra Nova oil field, an oil field development project 350 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland
• Terra Nova, Nova Scotia, a community on Cape Breton Island
• Terra Nova, Ontario, a hamlet in Mulmur community

Italy

• Terranova di Sicilia, name used until 1927 for the municipality of Gela (CL), Sicily
• Terranova Pausania, name used until 1939 for the municipality of Olbia (OT), Sardinia
• Terranuova Bracciolini, municipality in the Province of Arezzo, Tuscany
• Terranova da Sibari, municipality in the Province of di Cosenza, Calabria
• Terranova dei Passerini, municipality in the Province of Lodi, Lombardy
• Terranova di Pollino, municipality in the Province of Potenza, Basilicata
• Terranova Sappo Minulio, municipality in the Province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria
• Terranova (Sicignano degli Alburni), hamlet in the municipality of Sicignano degli Albruni (SA), Campania

Puerto Rico

• Terranova, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, a barrio of Puerto Rico

Education

• Terra Nova School, a prep school in Cheshire, England
• Terra Nova High School (disambiguation), several schools
• TerraNova (test), a K–12 achievement test in the United States

Seafaring

• HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259), a Canadian Restigouche-class destroyer escort
• Terra Nova Expedition, a British expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott to Antarctica
  • Terra Nova (ship), a sealing and then exploration ship, used in the Terra Nova Expedition
• Terra Nova FPSO, a floating production storage and offloading vessel in the Terra Nova oil and gas field
• MT Terra Nova, an oil tanker that caused an oil spill in Manila Bay

Taxonomy

• Gressittacantha terranova, a springtail insect that lives in the Antarctic
• Terranova (nematode), a roundworm genus of the family Anisakidae

Entertainment

Film, TV shows and theatre

• Terra Nova (TV series), a 2011 American science fiction series
• Terra Nova (1932 film), a 1932 Dutch documentary film
• Terra Nova (1991 film), a 1991 Italian film
• Terra Nova (1998 film), a 1998 Australian film
• Terra Nova (2008 film), a 2008 Russian film
• "Terra Nova" (Star Trek: Enterprise), first-season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Terra Nova Theatre Group, a theatre company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Terra Nova, a play by Ted Tally
• Terra Nova, a planet on the first-season episode
• Terranova (TV), a German television channel

Music

• Terranova (band), a German electronic group
• Terra Nova (EP), the debut extended play by The Austerity Program
• "Terra Nova", a song written by James Taylor and Carly Simon, on James Taylor's album JT

Games and films

• Terra Nova (blog), a collaborative blog covering academic research in gaming
• , a 1996 computer game
• Nova Terra, a fictional character in the StarCraft series and Heroes of the Storm
• Terra Nova (TV series), an American science fiction drama television series

Fictional locations

• CMS Terra Nova, a supply ship owned by SCAF 200 years ago in the Dead Space 3 Awakened game
• Terra Nova, an Earth-colonized planet and the setting of the Heavy Gear series of games
• Terra Nova, one of the first Earth-colonized planets in the fictional Star Trek universe featured in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode of the same name
• Terra Nova, one of the first planets discovered by the Alphans, after the breakaway with the Earth, featured in the Space: 1999 episode "Matter of Life and Death"
• Terra Nova, a fictional colony of humans set 85 million years in the past in the TV series Terra Nova

Other uses

• Terra Nova (journal), an earth science journal
• Terra Nova (newspaper), a weekly newspaper for the island of São Vicente in Cabo Verde
• Terranova (surname)
• Terra Nova (think tank), France
• Terra Nova Equipment, a British outdoor equipment company based in Derbyshire
• Terra Nova 1260HP diesel hydraulic locomotive, a Romanian diesel locomotive built by Electroputere VFU since 2014

See also

• Terre-Neuve (disambiguation)
• Tierra Nueva (disambiguation)