If New York Is Named After York In England. Then Wheres Zealand?

Question

New Zealand? Wheres Zealand? How Can It Be New?

Answer 1

cuz the "new" makes it sound fancy , lolll

Answer 2

There's a Zealand in Denmark, but New Zealand is actually named after Zeeland in the Netherlands. The Dutch explorer Tasman named it.

Answer 3

Zealand is the English name for one of the Danish isles, the one which Copenhagen is located on.

But even being Danish, I honestly don't know if we had anything to do with the naming of New Zealand.

Answer 4

Zeeland is in The Netherlands.  Google or wikipedia would have answered this for you correctly in less time than yahoo answers.

Answer 5

Zealand, I think, is the island east of the Danish mainland where I think Copenhagen is. Hmm. I kinda thought New York was named after the original York in Pennsylvania. Maybe that York's named after York, U.K.

Answer 6

only upgrade,honey!

Answer 7

It's near East Virginia.

Answer 8

Zealand (also Sealand; Danish: Sjælland; is the largest island of Denmark (excluding Greenland, which is a Danish territory) and the 95th largest island in the world. Zealand is connected to Funen by the Great Belt Bridge and to Sweden by the Øresund Bridge.

Answer 9

Whoa people. Let's get it right.

1  New Zealand was discovered by Able Tasman who was DUTCH (from Holland). The Maori people discovered it first and called it Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud.

2  It was named by a Dutch East India Company cartographer in Batavia (Jakarta) after Zeeland in HOLLAND. The name was later anglicised to Zealand

Answer 10

its in demark !