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New Zealand?
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Why is it NEW Zealand? Is there a Zealand somewhere?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.there's also a Danish island called Zealand (Sj�lland). The first European known to have found New Zealand was a Dutchman, Abel Tasman. Dutch cartographers called it Nova Zeelandia, in Latin, which in Dutch became Nieuw Zeeland. Captain Cook translated this as New Zealand - incorrectly, it seems, because Zealand is an alternative spelling for the Danish island, not the Dutch province.