New Zealand - Where is old Zealand? how did it get it's name?

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Zeeland (not Zealand) is a province in Holland, a coastal strip bordering Belgium. It contains a number of islands and about half of its area is water - hence the name, meaning sea-land.

How New Zealand got its name: In 1642 the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman became the first European to discover New Zealand, which he named 'Staten Landt' on his maps, thinking it was an island off Chile sighted in 1616. When it was realized that they were two different places, the Dutch mapmakers gave the archipelago the Latin name 'Nova Zeelandia' after the Dutch province. The Latin became the Dutch 'Nieuw Zeeland', which was in turn misspelled 'New Zealand' by the English explorer Captain James Cook.

Abel Tasman also discovered an island off Australia which he named Van Diemen's Land, but was later given the more appropriate name of Tasmania.

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Old Zealand

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The first Europeans known to have reached New Zealand were led by Abel Janszoon Tasman, who sailed up the west coasts of the South and North Islands in 1642. He named it Staten Landt, believing it to be part of the land Jacob Le Maire had seen in 1616 off the coast of Chile. Staten Landt appeared on Tasman's first maps of New Zealand, but this was changed by Dutch cartographers to Nova Zeelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, some time after Hendrik Brouwer proved the supposedly South American land to be an island in 1643. The Latin Nova Zeelandia became Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch. Captain James Cook subsequently called the archipelago New Zealand (a slight corruption, as Zealand is not an alternative spelling of Zeeland, a province in the Netherlands, but of Sjælland, the island in Denmark that includes Copenhagen), although the Māori names he recorded for the North and South Islands (as Aehei No Mouwe and Tovy Poenammu respectively[1]) were rejected, and the main three islands became known as North, Middle and South, with the Middle Island being later called the South Island, and the earlier South Island becoming Stewart Island.

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NZ was named after Zeeland, an island in the south of the Netherlands, by Abel Tasman, the Dutch captain who was the first European to see it, in 1642. There's an island called Zealand in Denmark, but there's no connection.

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The old Zealand in an area in South Netherlands. Read on Wikipedia about Zeeland .

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New Zealand - Where is old Zealand? how did it get it's name?

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I have always thought that Old Zealand is the present day Dutch province of Zeeland.

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Zealand is the largest Island of Denmark where the country's capital Copenhagen is located. In English, it is spelled also as Seeland. In Danish, it is spelled as Sjaelland.

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Well there's probably no connection , but Zealand (english) is the largest of the Danish islands on which Copenhagen lies. The Danish name is Sjœlland.

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Zeeland is in the Netherlands, Abel Tasman - dutch, was the first westerner to discover New Zealand (Aotearoa). He named it after Zeeland.