If New Zealand is new, where is Zealand?!

Another interesting fact to follow up on the ‘real Australian discoverers’, Able Tasman actually discovered New Zealand. He named it New Zeeland after a province consisting of a row of islands above Holland called co-incidentally…….’Zeeland’, meaning ‘Sea Land’. Once captain Cook re-discovered the region, he renamed New Holland to Australia, and anglicised New Zeeland to Zealand, the english word for province of Zeeland. Next time you meet a Kiwi, ask them the heritage of their country name. Most of them are unaware.