Never-Never Land

The fictitious home place of Peter Pan from J. M. Barrie’s popular play Peter Pan (1904) and hence a synonym for a sense of dreamy unreality. Perhaps unknown to J. M. Barrie is the fact that a region called Never-Never exists as a real place in Australia. The first citation for this Antipodean Never-Never Land dates from as early as 1882. See also La La land.