Terra Nova

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

Geography

• Terra Nova, Pernambuco, a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil
• Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Terra Nova Islands, a pair of of small islands near Antarctica
• Terra Nova High School (disambiguation)

Newfoundland

• Newfoundland (island), the island portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada was originally called Terra Nova
• Terra Nova (electoral district), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Terra Nova, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Terra Nova National Park, a Canadian 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

Persons

• Terranova (surname)

Seafaring

• HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259), a Canadian Restigouche-class destroyer escort
• Terra Nova Expedition, a British expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott with the purpose of undertaking scientific research and exploration

• 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 located in the Terra Nova oil and gas field

Taxonomy

• Gressittacantha terranova, an springtail insect that lives in the Antarctic
• Terranova (roundworm), a roundworm genus

Entertainment

Film and theatre

• Terra Nova (TV series), a science fiction series
• Terra Nova (film), a 1932 Dutch documentary film
• Terra Nova, a play by Ted Tally
• "Terra Nova" (Enterprise episode), first season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

Music

• Terranova (band), a German electronic group made up of Fetisch, Marco Meister and Kaos
• "Terra Nova", a song written by James Taylor and Carly Simon, on James Taylor's album JT
• Terra Nova, a British folk record label

Games

• Terra Nova (blog), a collaborative blog covering academic research in gaming
• Terra Nova (board game), a strategy board game
• Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, a computer game
• November "Nova" Terra, a character in the StarCraft universe

Fictional locations

• 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 (Star Trek planet), one of the first Earth-colonized planets in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Terra Nova, a fictional colony of humans set 85 million years in the past in the TV series, Terra Nova

Miscellaneous

• Terra Nova (newspaper), a weekly newspaper that covers top stories from the island of São Vicente in the Cape Verde islands
• Terra Nova Equipment, a British outdoor equipment company based in Derbyshire
• Terranova, a SEAT electric concept car
• TerraNova (test), a K-12 achievement test in the United States

See also

• Terre-Neuve
• Tierra Nueva
• All pages beginning with "Terra Nova"
• All pages with titles containing "Terra Nova"
• All pages beginning with "Terranova"
• All pages with titles containing "Terranova"
• Terranova da Sibari, a town in the Italian provence of Cosenza
• Terranova dei Passerini, a town in the Italian province of Lodi
• Terranova di Pollino, a town in the Italian province of Potenza
• Terranova Sappo Minulio, a comune (municipality) in the Italian province of Reggio Calabria
• Terranova Pausania, former name of the town Olbia
• Terranova di Sicilia, former name of the Italian town Gela