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minus-squaretrem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoAh, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition. Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman’s discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology
Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology