Ge·ni·us lo·ci

Ge·ni·us lo·ci  [gen-i-oos loh-kee; English jee-nee-uhs loh-sahy, -kahy] Latin. 1. guardian of a place. 2. the distinctive character or atmosphere of a place with reference to the impression that it makes on the mind. n 1. the guardian spirit of a place 2. the special atmosphere of a particular place   [genius of the place] 

Magellan

Magellan  Ma·gel·lan  [muh-jel-uhn]  noun 1. Ferdinand, c1480–1521, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Straits of Magellan 1520 and the Philippines 1521. 2. a strait near the S tip of South America between the mainland of Chile and Tierra del Fuego and other islands, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific. 360 miles (580 km) long; 2½–17 miles (4–27 km) wide.

Penury

Penury  pen·u·ry  [pen-yuh-ree] extreme poverty; destitution. 2. scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency. Origin:  1400–50; late Middle English  < Latin pēnūria;  akin to Greek peîna  hunger, penía  poverty  Synonyms  1. indigence, need, want.  Antonyms  1. wealth. penury  (ˈpɛnjʊrɪ)    — n 1. extreme poverty 2. extreme scarcity   [C15: from Latin pēnūria  dearth, of obscure origin]

vastitude

vastitude    \ VAS-ti-tood, -tyood, VAH-sti- \  , noun;     1. vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind . 2. a vast expanse or space: the ocean vastitude : He glances around him in a circular direction to indicate the vastitude  of the question, a vastitude  which is to be inferred from the established fact of the ambient desert. -- Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, The Blue Flowers , 1965