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| Thread ID: 124926 | 2012-05-28 04:17:00 | New Zealand is a crap name for a country | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1277826 | 2012-05-28 04:59:00 | What a load of fecal matter. X2. Someone has too much time on their hands. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1277827 | 2012-05-28 05:04:00 | Stink poll no leave it as is option. The name probably comes from a place in Holland , seems fair since we were discovered by a Dutchman. Pretty happy with the flag as it as well, I don't want a moaris one. cast your eyes over the very first option. That aside, the Island of Zealand is part of Denmark, and has about as much to do with us a the American Indians. You can't claim to have discovered anything if people already knew all about it. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1277828 | 2012-05-28 05:06:00 | What a load of fecal matter. Semi-interesting but not a very clever suggestion, It would make sense if it were only applied to Auckland. Probably wouldn't help tourism though. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1277829 | 2012-05-28 05:11:00 | Zealand, the land of Zealots, we're the New one. I voted the 4th option, might as well, it's all that happens these days anyways ;) Screw it, while we're at it, lets just let Hone decide for us, he's gonna make the most noise and throw the most %@#$ at the fan if he doesn't get his way, might as well just please him right off the bat... Yes! If he did get to pick - along with his awful mother - he couldn't complain about it. Problem is. he'd just find something else to complain about. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1277830 | 2012-05-28 05:17:00 | Zealand is an area of the Netherlands so i'm guessing the naming might have had something to do with Abel Tasman. The name has everything to do with Abel Tasman. He named the country Nieuw Zeeland in 1642. I thought everyone knew that. |
Ulsterman (12815) | ||
| 1277831 | 2012-05-28 05:18:00 | cast your eyes over the very first option. That aside, the Island of Zealand is part of Denmark, and has about as much to do with us a the American Indians. You can't claim to have discovered anything if people already knew all about it. Didn't the American Indians get here before the Maori along with the Greeks, the Phoneticians and the Mongol hordes? |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1277832 | 2012-05-28 05:19:00 | The name has everything to do with Abel Tasman. He named the country Nieuw Zeeland in 1642. I thought everyone knew that. Just needed someone to confirm that for me thought I was right though |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1277833 | 2012-05-28 05:20:00 | The name has everything to do with Abel Tasman. He named the country Nieuw Zeeland in 1642. I thought everyone knew that. he did? wait, no he didn't. When Abel Tasman reached New Zealand in 1642, he named it Staten Landt, believing it to be part of the land Jacob Le Maire had discovered in 1616 off the coast of Argentina. Staten Landt appeared on Tasman's first maps of New Zealand, but this was changed by Dutch cartographers to Nova Zelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, some time after Hendrik Brouwer proved the South American land to be an island in 1643. The Latin Nova Zelandia became Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch. Captain James Cook subsequently called the islands New Zealand. It seems logical that he simply applied English usage to the Dutch naming, but it has also been suggested he was possibly confusing Zeeland with the Danish island of Zealand. Dumbest naming of a country ever. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1277834 | 2012-05-28 05:20:00 | Hang on, I thought it was Nu Zillind? | Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1277835 | 2012-05-28 05:22:00 | Almost as dumb as naming our Islands North and South. | Metla (12) | ||
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