'the wandering state' and naming

 Our subconscious, our experiences, and our language usage - dialect, sociolect, and native language, all influence our thought patterns and connections between reality and the manner we as individuals process it. The wandering state expounds upon these tendencies with two very different personalities, and the manner in which they interacted with an environment never before seen by Europeans. Australia was inhabited, but extremely remote and disconnected from the increasingly globalized world. It wasn't until 1770 - 278 years after Columbus first landed in the New World - that Captain Cook charted Australian waters. Cook was meticulous about giving names and charting the shoreline to aid future exploration: not necessarily colonization projects, but any manner of expedition. The name's Cook chose seem random and pointless at first, but are connected to his experiences of growing up a sailor, the names of his crew members, and the manner in which they interpreted their surroundings, for instance three brothers hill being names so because the hills resembled three brothers. This reimagination of space outside the previous indigenous context changed the manner in which Europeans, and later Australians, viewed their surroundings. Linguistic tendencies manfesting unconciously, creating pathways between experiences in our brains - the process of naming is incredibly complex and multifaceted.