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A2. Abel Tasman named what is now New Zealand as Stadten Land under the idea that it was a continuation of the S American peninsula. After James Cook's voyages showed this to not be true, the land was renamed on Dutch maps as Niew Zeeland after a province of Holland. Zeeland literally meant sea land - probably in reference to land reclamation.
The British Admiralty translation of this was New Zealand.
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β 15y agoRight: Abel Tasman the Dutch Explorer name New Zealand after a region in the Netherlands 'Zeeland'. Aoteroa (Maori) means 'land of the long white cloud' Wrong: new zealand actually means `the land of the long white cloud' new zealand actually means `the land of the long white cloud' new zealand actually means `the land of the long white cloud'
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