If there is a "New Zealand" is there also an "Old Zealand"?
 

WTF is a Zealand anyways?

Personally, I've always wondered where the hell "Old South Wales" was.

Well I guess there is Wales in the UK, and Australia is South of the UK, so it's called New South Wales. But I'm just guessing.

Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands

Yeah, but what about OLD Sou......


skip it.

Well where the hell is "Old York", then?

UK........feckin poms name everything

I believe it is a burrough of Toronto.





But I have yet to find Old Brunswick.

Although there are no clear records of precisely how New Zealand got its modern name, its first usage is attributed to Dutch Captain Willem Jansz. In 1620, Jansz sailed his ship, the Duyfken, southeastward in search of gold and riches. During his voyage, Jansz observed an island off the coast of New Guinea, which he named ?Nieu Zelandt.? Subsequently, many maps recorded the name ?Nieu Zelandt? as recently as the late 1700s. Other maps appearing as early as 1645 carried the name ?Zeelandia Nova? (meaning ?new sea land?).

Some historians suggest the land was named after the one of the Dutch provinces ? Zeelandt, which was separated from the province of Holland by the sea (thus ?Sea-land?). Australia was given the name Hollandia Nova (New Holland) and so Zeelandia Nova (New Zeeland), separated by an expanse of ocean, makes sense. Other historians suggest that Zeeland was the name of the second most important chamber of the Dutch East India Company. Thus, they suggest the island was named after this chamber.

Great man! Where did you get the info?

hmmm

It is also known to some people who are in-the-know as "Sheepistan".

somebody kill me

why?

its a city now damn it! thats where i was born :)

Are you from Sheepistan?

Actually cows are taking over from sheep.....

A whole new list of jokes is being prepared as we speak

Its called Google.com you may of heard of it :)

Heres the articule, I couldn't find the page again, so I just cut and pasted the entire paragragh I posted into google and google found it again, gotta love that...

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...3?img_id=10881

Well, that one is pretty simple.

New York used to be named New Holland. But the english kicked out the Dutch and rename it to New York. There is no Old York, but there is a York. :Graucho

I thought it was New Amsterdam?

I guessed so

HAHAHA sheep joke!!
:321GFY

Was wondering how long it would take for the sheep reference.

hahahhahahaha.. interesting concept... I've always wondered the same thing.. "bloody kiwis" we say in Australia..

"fush and chups" and all that.. hehe

Zealand is probably a cloud cos that's what the place is supposed to always have... rain...

Cloudy/Airy Zealanders :) hmmm..

you missed the first Sheep reference..

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Kristen as usual you crack me up :) You been into the juice again ?

There is a city in England called "York"

Yeah it used to be New Amsterdam. Zealand is one of the dutch hangovers too but I couldnt put it better than the article above.

Some of my most favorite people are from NZ :Graucho Sheep and cows don't hold a candle to some of the stuff they talk to me. Kiwis are some freaky people. :glugglug

What are the babes like in Sheepistan.... uh, New Zealand?

Why did you make this gay New thread, couldn't you have just stuck with Old threads?

Wooly........

The girls are great...

we have some fucking awesome cannibis...

and it's one of the only countries in the world where it's 100% legal to be a pimp. :321GFY

Kiwi's are cuties :)

Why is the a West Virginia and not an East Virginia?

Maybe because East Virginia would have to be located in the middle of the Atlantic? :glugglug

Yes, but there isn't a Dakota so it would follow that what we call Virginia should be East Virginia.


Anyway, no one questions where New England came from so really New York, New South Wales (and South Wales is a recognized region) should make sense if you know geography ;)