Re: OT: Wild Weather

"Ken Taylor" <ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:43:35 GMT, the renowned "Clarence_A"
>> <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >"Rich Grise" <richgrise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> >>
>> >> So, where in the world is the original Zealand?
>> >
>> >The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen
>> >
>> >Can't use Google?
>> >
>>
>> Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands. That is the origin of the
>> name.
>>
>
>It must piss down rain there all the time too. Or maybe Tasman saw the
>fjords and the glaciers and thought it was pretty neat.

I think neither. Zeeland is a province where 3 or 4 major rivers of
Europe end into the North sea. The province consists of several
islands like New Zealand does. I think that's why he named it that way
because that's the only thing which is resembling. Fjords, glaciers
and mountains can not be found in the Netherlands.

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