dilly Posted August 15, 2011 Member ID: 2467 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 41 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 319 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/07/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17, 2018 Birthday: 06/12/1993 Posted August 15, 2011 well bob keeps nagging me about new zealand so i showed him how we doing chilling with the dogs!
hxtr Posted August 15, 2011 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted August 15, 2011 That was a funny clip... Is there an old Zealand? I just googled... here is what I found. BTW I feel so smart with google around.... hahahaha New Zealand - Where is old Zealand? how did it get it's name? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker Zeeland (not Zealand) is a province in Holland, a coastal strip bordering Belgium. It contains a number of islands and about half of its area is water - hence the name, meaning sea-land.How New Zealand got its name: In 1642 the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman became the first European to discover New Zealand, which he named 'Staten Landt' on his maps, thinking it was an island off Chile sighted in 1616. When it was realized that they were two different places, the Dutch mapmakers gave the archipelago the Latin name 'Nova Zeelandia' after the Dutch province. The Latin became the Dutch 'Nieuw Zeeland', which was in turn misspelled 'New Zealand' by the English explorer Captain James Cook. Abel Tasman also discovered an island off Australia which he named Van Diemen's Land, but was later given the more appropriate name of Tasmania. ------------------------------- now I feel edumicated.......... Now I see English have always had a hard time spelling....... I dont feel so bad now. hahahahahaha
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