This question occurred to me the other day. I know where the old York is, where old Mexico is, and Old England...
The first Westerner to discover our landmass was a Dutch man by the name of Abel Tasman. Much like Columbus thinking that the Caribbean islands were India, Tasman thought that he was visiting a part of what is now Argentina that already happened to belong to Holland. But later, when the Dutch government realised that he had indeed been in a new territory, they named it Nova Zeeland after the westernmost Dutch province.
The first Westerner to discover our landmass was a Dutch man by the name of Abel Tasman. Much like Columbus thinking that the Caribbean islands were India, Tasman thought that he was visiting a part of what is now Argentina that already happened to belong to Holland. But later, when the Dutch government realised that he had indeed been in a new territory, they named it Nova Zeeland after the westernmost Dutch province.
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Now, that is REALLY being lost! And there you have it, the Tasmanian Sea! I've heard of the Zider Zee.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland_%28disambiguation%29
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