This is closer in spelling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand 😂
That article literally says the other one is what New Zealand is named after.
Wait until they figure it out that Harlem is named after the Amsterdam suburb, since New York was originally New Amsterdam.
Haarlem is not a suburb but it’s own city, it is actually the capital of the North-Holland province.
Sorry, I think it might have been something lost in translation, I was trying to say “settlement located close by and heavily influenced by another much bigger settlement”. I don’t know a better word for it.
Also Brooklyn is named after Breukelen. Vancouver was named after Van Coevorden. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman.
It’s almost as if the Netherlands used to be relevant in world exploration
Never made the connection between Brooklyn and breukelen… Which is a lovely place btw.
I recall that from Istanbul (not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
Underwater actually. Zealandia did exist
Zealandia is not old Zealand… The name comes from a province in the Netherlands.
We know where the old one is and it’s basically on all world maps - it’s the New Zealand that keeps disappearing from them.
Why they changed it, I can’t say…