Australia Felix

Etymology
From +. Proposed as a name for parts of Victoria (Australia) explored by Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855).

Proper noun

 * 1)  A name for the comparatively lush areas of western Victoria, Australia.
 * 2) * 1839, Thomas Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2, Gutenberg eBook #13033,
 * I named this region Australia Felix, the better to distinguish it from the parched deserts of the interior country where we had wandered so unprofitably and so long.