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Where was the original Zealand?
Eastern Polynesia

New Zealand was first settled by Polynesians from Eastern Polynesia.Relation to New Zealand

The island nation of New Zealand has no etymological relations to Zealand. New Zealand is named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, which is sometimes referred to as and/or anglicized to Zealand, but is not to be confused with the Danish island.Australia was first settled around 50,000 years ago, and New Zealand around 1250–1300 CE. Europeans first thought about the two countries together when Charles de Brosses, a French scholar, described an imaginary southern continent called 'Australasie' (south of Asia) in 1756.

Where did New Zealand separate from : New South Wales

16 November 1840

New Zealand officially became a separate colony within the British Empire, severing its link to New South Wales.

Where was Zealand before New Zealand

Old Zealand is where it always has been: in the Southwestern Netherlands, in between Flanders and Holland, and the Scheldt and Meuse estuaries.

What is the origin of Zealand : In December 1642 Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman was the first European to sight New Zealand's South Island, and Dutch cartographers named the territory after the Dutch maritime province of Zeeland.

Zeeland is a low-lying coastal area in the southwestern region of the Dutch homeland whose name translates as “sea land.” While Tasman gets the credit for being the first European to spot New Zealand, his expedition didn't land there and the Dutch never established a permanent colony.

Abel Tasman

A Dutchman, Abel Tasman, was the first European to sight the country but it was the British who made New Zealand part of their empire. In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, an agreement between the British Crown and Maori.

Who found New Zealand first

explorer Abel Tasman

The dutch explorer Abel Tasman is officially recognised as the first European to 'discover' New Zealand in 1642. His men were the first Europeans to have a confirmed encounter with Māori.The British would ensure that those names would be chiefly remembered in song, if at all (”Even old New York was once New Amsterdam…”), and although they replaced the Dutch-named New Holland with Australia, New Zealand retained its Dutch origins.Hendrik Brouwer proved that the South American land was a small island in 1643, and 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.

One of the smallest in population of the Dutch provinces, Zeeland has few industries and no large towns. Vlissingen, Middelburg (the capital), Goes, Terneuzen, and Sas van Gent are the main towns. Two nature reserves in Zeeland protect dune areas and wildlife. Area 1,133 square miles (2,934 square km).

What was New Zealand originally called : Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is the Māori-language name for New Zealand. The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island, with the whole country being referred to as Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu (North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu)).

What was New Zealand before : At first New Zealand was legally part of the New South Wales colony (in Australia), but in 1841 it became a separate crown colony, and Hobson was named governor.

Did the Chinese discover New Zealand

Wang said the KWQ suggests Chinese mariners had explored Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica by the 1420s, much earlier than European explorers.

In 1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to discover New Zealand, calling it Staten Land. In 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicized the name to New Zealand.Prior to 1840, it was mainly whalers, sealers, and missionaries who came to New Zealand. These settlers had considerable contact with Māori, especially in coastal areas. Māori and Pākehā (Europeans) traded extensively, and some Europeans lived among Māori.

Why didn’t the Dutch Colonise New Zealand : However, when he reported back to his East Indies Company superiors in Jakarta in Indonesia (Batavia), he said there were few resources and no gold in the new land and the local people were very unfriendly and not interested in trade. It was too far from Jakarta and Holland to bother administering New Zealand.