He's on a quest for knowledge
He's on a quest for knowledge
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It's a province in the Netherlands. It's only \ few hundred km from legoland in Denmark - the dude should get out more - I bet he only goes to the central bit of Old Amsterdam.
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By this logic Canada should be called New Newfoundland
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Newerfoundland
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Why they changed it, I can't say...
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People just liked it better that way.
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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
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Underwater actually. Zealandia did exist
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Zeeland still exists, it's between Zuid-Holland and Belgium
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stop making up country names, funny man.
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We know where the old one is and it's basically on all world maps - it's the New Zealand that keeps disappearing from them.
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So named by famed Dutch explorer Abel Tasman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman
Who on his most famous voyage, mapped the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand and Tasmania while managing to completely miss continental Australia.
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there is actually an indie game in which old zealand exists, it's called nuclear drifter and is a bit like the first fallout games, it's pretty fun and you should check it out on steam, it's even free I think
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What is denis YT doing in lemmy
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https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.502&mlon=3.779#map=8/51.502/3.779
Wait until they figure it out that Harlem is named after the Amsterdam suburb, since New York was originally New Amsterdam.
Also Brooklyn is named after Breukelen. Vancouver was named after Van Coevorden. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman.
It's almost as if the Netherlands used to be relevant in world exploration
Haarlem is not a suburb but it's own city, it is actually the capital of the North-Holland province.
I recall that from Istanbul (not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
This is closer in spelling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand 😂
That article literally says the other one is what New Zealand is named after.