The Neo-Latin name Nova Zeelandia (Dutch: Nieuw Zeeland, lit. 'New Zeeland') honoured the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland ("sea-land"). Representatives...

navigation. That this was Mercator's intention is clear from the title: Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata...

1643, and Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman's discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later...

British colony on modern Guyana's Essequibo River, originally known as Nova Zeelandia ("New Zeeland") The English translation of the short-lived Danish colony...

Island". After the adoption of the name New Zealand (anglicised from Nova Zeelandia) by Europeans, one name used by Māori to denote the country as a whole...

to refer to the whole country. Dutch cartographers named the islands Nova Zeelandia, the Latin translation of the Dutch Nieuw Zeeland (after the Dutch province...

entire colony settled here in 1621. Initially, the colony was named Nova Zeelandia (New Zeeland), but the usage of the name Essequibo soon became common...

Estados. When that was shown not to be so, Dutch authorities named it Nova Zeelandia in Latin, Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch. The two major seafaring provinces...

1590s–1720s): including Nova Guinea (New Guinea), Nova Hollandia (mainland Australia), Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and Nova Zeelandia (New Zealand)....

majority of its non-submerged land. Dutch explorers named the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland, and British explorer James Cook...