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Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer who was the first European to discover the area now called New Zealand. Zeeland is a Dutch province which is a seafaring region. The Dutch authorities on the report of Abel Tasman named the new found island, New Zealand.

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New Zealand has two official names. The Maori name of Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) was naturally of Maori origin.

The New Zealand name was less direct. Tasman originally named the land as Staten Landt, as he considered that it was or could be connected to S America. Cook's navigations revealed that error and the Dutch changed the name on their maps to Niew Zeeland, which was translated on the British Admiralty maps as New Zealand.

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As far as I know the name New Zealand was given to the islands in Batavia after the return of Abel Tasman. Abel had named the islands Staten Islands. New Holland existed already and because Zeeland was the second important province of the Netherlands at that time the name Nieuw Zeeland was used.

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In December 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted a new land which he described as mountainous and covered in cloud in the south, but more barren in the north. He had discovered New Zealand. The islands were named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.

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Abel Janszoon Tasman - Holland was the first to discover New zealand...

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The province of Zeeland in the Netherlands.

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