New Zealand?? But my question is where is "old" zealand?

Question

just pondered that.... anyone know

oh you smart cookies.....

well done...

Answer 1

I believe it's a province of Holland (let's make that The Netherlands to be more geographically correct)

Answer 2

Zealand is the largest island of Denmark, however New Zealand has not been named after the old Danish island. New Zealand was named by the Dutch cartographers after the Dutch province of Zeeland. Settlers usually named new places after the places they were originally from - like York is in England and New York is in the United States, and so on... although that was a New Amsterdam before after Amsterdam in Holland....

Answer 3

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[2]) 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. Cook began extensive surveys of the islands in 1769, leading to European whaling expeditions and eventually significant European colonisation. From as early as the 1780s, Māori had encounters with European sealers and whalers. Acquisition of muskets by those iwi in close contact with European visitors destabilised the existing balance of power between Māori tribes and there was a temporary but intense period of bloody inter-tribal warfare, known as the Musket Wars, which ceased only when all iwi were so armed.

Answer 4

Dutch province of Zeeland

Answer 5

Holland

Answer 6

Aotearoa

Answer 7

Zeeland is in the Netherlands

Answer 8

its aproximately 50km south of me ^^

a province in the netherlands
correct modern day spelling Zeeland

Answer 9

Denmark.

Answer 10

its a small country off the coast of Nowhere Land, south of Imaginary Bay.