I believe Australia was called New Holland in earlier times? Maybe New
Zealand is just a inheritance of that. In old Dutch, the 'ee' is written as
'ea', and 'aa' is written as 'ae', so maybe that explains the difference in
writing.
If you see the location of New Zealand in Australia and that of Zeeland
(english : 'Sealand') in The Netherlands, it's quite clear why New Zealand
has gotten its name. But there are more links:
Brooklyn is called after the Dutch city "Breukelen"
Vancouver is called after the Dutch city "Coevorden", which was built by
count Van Coevorden
Harlem is called after the Dutch city of Haarlem
York is a city in England, New York is called after that
And there are much, much more similar links
Bart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Wesson" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: [OT] Dutch/Danish (was "Solvang")
> Bart Kuik wrote:
> >
> > The Netherlands consist of twelve provinces, from North to South that
are
> > Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland,
> > Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Zeeland and
> > Zuid-Limburg.
>
> OK, so to go off the off-topic topic, is this Zeeland anything to do
> with New Zealand? If so, why the difference in spelling? And is New
> Zealand as baffling a misnomer as New South Wales, which could hardly be
> any more different to South Wales?
>
> Roger
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