2007-02-22 18:37:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
I remember looking this up a long time ago because I wondered the same thing. I believe the Dutch had a province that was named Zeeland and when the Dutch inhabited the island of New Zealand that is what they named it after. Or it was something like Nova Zeeland but close enough.
2007-02-22 18:44:08 · answer #1 · answered by lithiumcore 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
New Zealand was named after the Dutch province of Zeeland. The Dutchman Abel Tasman was the first European explorer to reach its shores and Dutch cartographers Nova Zeelandia... this became Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch and New Zealand in English.
And to the person who asked, York and Hampshire are in the UK, I'm sure you know where Mexico is and as for Newfoundland... do you really need to ask where that name came from?!
2007-02-23 08:03:39 · answer #2 · answered by Phil 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
New Zealand is named after the province of ZEELAND in the Netherlands. so named by Abel Janszoon Tasman who was a Dutchman from that province.
2007-02-25 01:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the british who found it and decided to it a NEW land that they found as it is shaped like the letter Z almost, you know the north and the south island like a zigzag, therefore it got the name NEW ZEALAND.
2007-02-22 23:22:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
holland
2007-02-22 18:44:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
where is old york and old mexico, old hampshire? old foundland?
2007-02-22 18:47:13 · answer #6 · answered by looklikebradpitt 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋