Alternate names for America?

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PoorBoy

Here's some I can think of:

Vinland
Erikland
Redland
Terra Nova
Mundi Novus
Vespuccia
Columbia
Canata
Caribea
Aztequia y Inca
Ferdinandea
Isabella
Carolina
Inferno:eek:
 
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tom

Glad this got bumped, I missed it the first time.
My Aesop article in Pyramid magazine is the RPG that used the Vespuccia names.
 

Evil Opus

Columbia is definetly one. Newland, perhaps, or maybe something else European. At one point, all of North America was called La Florida by the Spanish, until the French and British took the rest of North America and "La Florida" became the Florida of today.
 

Tyr

I don't think names like New XXXXX would work. In those cases people would just apply those names to the parts of the continent actually owned by that nation and just call the rest of it something else.
The name has to be at least somewhat neutral for everyone to accept it.
 

Reveilled

What about some latin variation of "Far East"? Columbus was trying to get to India, so if someone with the same idea had named the continent, the name might be chosen to suggest that the new lands were in the east, not the west, even if one had to sail west to get there.
 
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