Definition of dark continent
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Dark Continent
: the continent of Africa
- It was by the merest caprice of fortune that they headed toward the west coast of Africa, instead of toward Zanzibar on the opposite side of the dark continent.
- — Edgar Rice Burroughs
- … little was actually known about the interior of the Dark Continent until the mid-1800s.
- —Angus Carroll
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: something unknown or unexplored
- From Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the world received the shocking discovery that man had opened the dark continent of the atom.
- —Daniel J. Boorstein
