The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoThe sunken citieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1526
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minus-squareHumanius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland
minus-squaretrem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoAh, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition. 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland
Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology