{"id":2857,"date":"2021-04-13T05:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2021-04-13T05:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:20:04","slug":"why-is-new-zealand-called-new-zealand-where-is-the-old-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-is-new-zealand-called-new-zealand-where-is-the-old-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is New Zealand called \u201cNew\u201d Zealand (where is the old Zealand?)?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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1. Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest settlement in New Zealand happened between 1280 and 1300.<\/li>\n
2. For centuries that followed, these early settlers developed a distinct culture now known as M\u0101ori.<\/li>\n
3. What is known as New Zealand today was called Aotearoa <\/i>(meaning: the land of the long white cloud) by the Maori people.<\/li>\n
4. Now, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Europeans were in an exploration mode for the sake of economy (acquiring gold<\/a>, spices<\/a>, etc.), religion (spread Christianity), and glory.<\/li>\n
5. Abel Tasman, a Dutch (those who live in the Netherlands are called the Dutch<\/a>) working with the Dutch East India Company, was on one such exploration when he came across modern-day New Zealand.<\/li>\n
6. If we look at this Google Map<\/span><\/a>, New Zealand, and Argentina are separated just by the South Pacific Ocean.<\/li>\n
7. So, Abel and his team thought they were on an island just off the coast of Argentina and so, named it Staten Land believing it was a part of the Staten Landt (Argentine Islands – Isla de Los Estados in the South East)<\/a>.<\/li>\n
8. Later, the Dutch map-makers, realising that NZ was not a part of Argentina, named it Nova Zeelandia (Latin) after the Dutch province of Zeeland.<\/li>\n
9. Most of Zeeland (meaning \u2018sea-land\u2019), which is situated at the mouth of several major rivers in the Netherlands, lies below sea level.<\/li>\n
10. So, the name Nova Zeelandia (new sea-land) was thought appropriate as NZ is also surrounded by water.<\/li>\n
11. When the British explorer Captain Cook sailed on into Nova Zeelandia a century later, he merely anglicised the name, unlike in the case of New Holland which was changed completely to what we now know as Australia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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