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purplehair | 00:02 Mon 04th Sep 2006 | Travel
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Why is it NEW Zealand? Is there a Zealand somewhere?
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yes. in the Netherlands (Zeeland)
00:13 Mon 04th Sep 2006
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Thanks! That has been annoying me for days!
00:16 Mon 04th Sep 2006
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there's also a Danish island called Zealand (Sj�lland). The first European known to have found New Zealand was a Dutchman, Abel Tasman. Dutch cartographers called it Nova Zeelandia, in Latin, which in Dutch became Nieuw Zeeland. Captain Cook translated this as New Zealand - incorrectly, it seems, because Zealand is an alternative spelling for the Danish island, not the Dutch province.
00:48 Mon 04th Sep 2006
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Very close to home! Just about 120 miles due East from Southend-on-Sea.
11:34 Tue 05th Sep 2006

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