On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:12:43 GMT, the renowned "Clarence_A"
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> wrote:
>
>"Spehro Pefhany" wrote
>> "Clarence_A" wrote:
>> >"Rich Grise" wrote
>> >> So, where in the world is the original Zealand?
>> >
>> >The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen
><snip>
>>
>> Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands. That is the origin of
>the
>> name.
>
>So your saying that Copenhagen is NOT on the Island of Zealand?
No, I'm saying that (if it is true) is irrelevant to the naming of the
country NZ.
>Well if you insist on mis-spelling it, I suppose you may be right!
>Since New Zealand is also an Island, I suspect it was the source
>of the name in the Pacific.
You could try looking it up...
http://www.bartleby.com/67/1500.html
1642: "The first contact between Maoris and Europeans occurred when
the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman (See 1642–44) landed briefly in the
South Island and gave the country the name Nieuw Zeeland."
http://www.ultimatejourney.com/GuestNickPalmer.html
"Able Tazman in 1642 and named the land Nivew Zeeland after
the Netherland's Province of Zeeland."
http://delzur_research.tripod.com/nzresearch/naming_new_zealand.htm
On a Dutch globe-map of the mid-seventeenth century, the name
"Zeelandia Nova" - the Latin equivalent of the Dutch "Nieuw Zeeland"
and the English "New Zealand" - appears for the parts of New Zealand
discovered by Tasrnan. [i.e. W.J. Blaeu's 60 cm terrestrial globe -
revised by his son Joan Blaeu in 1648 - Brian Hooker.] Zealand is a
Dutch maritime province. We may see in these facts the emergence of
the designation Nieuw Zeeland and in due course of its English
equivalent as a name replacing the unsatisfactory Staten Land and
bestowed on New Zealand by analogy with the name Nieuw Holland for
Australia. A.S. [Andrew Sharp]
>However:
>http://www.nordpaul.de/kopen-en.html
>Since 1167AD!
>
>But there is also a Zeeland, and the names may be related.
Zeeland just means sea-land, so the existence of simlar names is not
really indication of any direct causal relation****p. Whether the
Copenhagen one was "the original" could still be argued, of course, if
one was of that bent. ;-)
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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