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Q: Marinus of Tyre was the first person to name which southerly continent?
A: Africa!
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The name was first used in the second century CE by the Greek geographer Marinus of Tyre on a world map that has since been lost. The term had been used to describe the frozen land mass in the south since the first century AD, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the Scottish cartographer John George Bartholomew officially named the continent Antarctica on maps.