"1642 and sailed northward to Tonga following an attack by local Māori. Tasman sketched sections of the two main islands' west coasts. Tasman called them ""Staten Landt"", after the ""States General of the Netherlands"", and that name appeared on his first maps of the country. In 1645 Dutch cartographers changed the name to ""Nova Zeelandia"" in Latin, from ""Nieuw Zeeland"", after the Dutch province of ""Zeeland"". It was subsequently anglicised as ""New Zealand"" by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark ""Endeavour"" who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during 1769–1770. Cook returned to New Zealand"
"was passed, and the province was divided into Auckland, Wellington and New Plymouth provinces. New Ulster Province New Ulster was a province of the Colony of New Zealand that existed between 1841 and 1853. It was named after the Irish province of Ulster. Between 1841 and 1846, the province included all the North Island north of the Patea River. With the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846, the province came to include all of the North Island. Like the other province of New Zealand at the time, New Munster Province, New Ulster Province was headed by a Lieutenant-Governor"
"Dutch province of Zeeland. ""Nova Zeelandia"" later became ""Nieuw Zeeland"" in Dutch, and British explorer James Cook subsequently called the archipelago New Zealand, an anglicised form of the Dutch name. The 1840 Letters Patent established New Zealand as a British colony and claimed the ""principal islands"" of New Zealand, identified by their commonly known names at the time: the Northern Island (the North Island), the Middle Island (the South Island) and Stewart's Island or ""South Island"". The letters patent attempted to rename the islands New Ulster, New Munster and New Leinster after the provinces in Ireland. New Ulster, New Munster"
"the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicized the name to New Zealand. The Australian island state Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. He first named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British. It was officially renamed in honor of its first European discoverer on 1 January 1856. Arnhem Land is named after the Dutch ship named"
"New Amsterdam. The Dutch colonies of Nieuw Walcheren and Nieuw Vlissingen, both on the Antillian island of Tobago, were both named after parts of Zeeland. The Canadian town of Zealand, New Brunswick, was named for the Zeeland birthplace of Dutchman Philip Crouse who settled in the area in 1789. Zeeland, North Dakota is another town named for this province and whose earliest settlers were of Dutch heritage. Paramaribo, the capital and largest city of Suriname, has a Fort Zeelandia, the former Fort Willoughby during the British colonization. Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over ten years from 1624–1634 by the"
"New Zealand place names Most New Zealand place names are derived from Māori and British sources. Both groups used names to commemorate notable people, events, places from their homeland, and their ships, or to describe the surrounding area. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the whole of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans, but post-colonisation the name ""Aotearoa"" (commonly translated as 'long white cloud') has been used 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 of Zeeland). British explorer"
"New Munster Province New Munster was an early original European name for the South Island of New Zealand, given by the Governor of New Zealand, Captain William Hobson, in honour of Munster, the Irish province in which he was born. When New Zealand was separated from the colony of New South Wales in 1840 and established as a colony in its own right, the Royal Charter effecting this provided that ""the principal Islands, heretofore known as, or commonly called, the 'Northern Island', the 'Middle Island', and 'Stewart's Island', shall henceforward be designated and known respectively as 'New Ulster', 'New Munster',"
"New Ulster Province New Ulster was a province of the Colony of New Zealand that existed between 1841 and 1853. It was named after the Irish province of Ulster. Between 1841 and 1846, the province included all the North Island north of the Patea River. With the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846, the province came to include all of the North Island. Like the other province of New Zealand at the time, New Munster Province, New Ulster Province was headed by a Lieutenant-Governor who reported to the Governor of New Zealand. In 1852, a new Constitution Act"
"into two provinces (North Island—New Ulster, South Island—New Munster), named after the Northern and Southern Irish provinces. In 1841, New Zealand was established as a colony in its own right. The Imperial Parliament (Westminster) passed the first New Zealand Constitution Act 1846 empowering the government in New Zealand in 1846. The Act was to be fully implemented in 1848, but was never put in place because the Governor-in-Chief at the time, Sir George Grey, declined to apply it for a number of reasons. Instead, the Act was suspended for five years. Grey ruled with the powers of a dictator for"
"Zealand, New Brunswick Zealand is a Canadian rural community in York County, New Brunswick close to the intersection of Route 104 and Route 616. It is located on the Keswick River, a tributary of the Saint John River, between the communities of Burtts Corner and Millville. The area was named New Zealand by Gould Crouse, whose Loyalist father Philip, born in Zealand in the Netherlands, came to New Brunswick from North Carolina after the American Revolution. Settlers of Keswick Valley included the surnames Alieen (Allen), Brouwer (Brewer), Kraus (Crouse), Jansen (Hanson), Jurkse (Yerxa) and Lauren (Lawrence), just to name a"
"at its own request. New Zealand ratified the Statute in 1947, after the passing of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947. A convention persisted that New Zealand prime ministers consulted the British government on the appointment of governors-general until 1967. The sovereign did not possess a title unique to New Zealand until the New Zealand Parliament enacted the Royal Titles Act in 1953, altering the style borne by Queen Elizabeth II and giving her the title of ""Queen of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories"". Accordingly, the name of the country in official usage"
"named it ""Staten Land"" ""in honour of the States General"" (Dutch parliament). He wrote, ""it is possible that this land joins to the Staten Land but it is uncertain"", referring to a landmass of the same name at the southern tip of South America, discovered by Jacob Le Maire in 1616. In 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land ""Nova Zeelandia"" after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand. ""Aotearoa"" (pronounced ; often translated as ""land of the long white cloud"") is the current Māori name for New Zealand. It is unknown"
"governed (to the extent that it was governed at all) from Auckland. New Leinster was merged into the province of New Munster with the passage of the New Zealand Constitution Act in 1846 and all three provinces names were abolished in 1852. New Leinster Province New Leinster was a province of the Colony of New Zealand, consisting of Stewart Island/Rakiura and named after the Irish province of Leinster. Governor William Hobson named the North Island New Ulster, the South Island New Munster and Stewart Island/Rakiura New Leinster after the corresponding regions in Ireland in 1840. In 1840, a Royal Charter"
"Auckland Province The Auckland Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. The province covered roughly half of the North Island of New Zealand. It was the largest of the six initial provinces, both by area and population. The southern boundary was mostly along the 39th latitude, which was an arbitrary line, as the country's interior was little known by Europeans. It was not subdivided during its existence; the Taranaki Province (originally named New Plymouth Province) was the other one that kept its boundaries. The six original provinces were established in"
"New Leinster Province New Leinster was a province of the Colony of New Zealand, consisting of Stewart Island/Rakiura and named after the Irish province of Leinster. Governor William Hobson named the North Island New Ulster, the South Island New Munster and Stewart Island/Rakiura New Leinster after the corresponding regions in Ireland in 1840. In 1840, a Royal Charter created the separate colony of New Zealand and the three main islands were officially named New Ulster, New Munster and New Leinster. Being much smaller than the other two provinces and having almost no population, it existed only on paper, and was"
"island continent presently known as Australia: New Holland was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Dirk Hartog as a Latin ""Nova Hollandia"", and remained in international use for 190 years. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman named New Zealand after the Dutch province of Zealand. In the Netherlands ""Nieuw Holland"" would remain the usual name of the continent until the end of the 19th century; it is now no longer in use there, the Dutch name today being ""Australië"". While ""Holland"" has been replaced in English as the official name for the country of the Netherlands, other languages"
"was subsequently Anglicised as ""New Zealand"" by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark ""Endeavour"" who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during (1769–1770). When Britain annexed New Zealand in 1840, New Zealand briefly became a part of New South Wales. This annexation was in response to New Zealand Company attempts to establish a separate colony in Wellington, and French claims in Akaroa, and so Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson declared British sovereignty over all of New Zealand on 21 May 1840 (the North Island by the Treaty of Waitangi and the South by discovery). When New Zealand"
"New Zealand, Canada, and Newfoundland used the word Dominion in the official title of the nation, whereas Australia used Commonwealth of Australia and South Africa Union of South Africa. New Zealand adopted the Statute of Westminster in 1947 and in the same year legislation passed in London gave New Zealand full powers to amend its own constitution. In 1986, the New Zealand parliament passed the Constitution Act 1986, which repealed the Constitution Act of 1852 and the last constitutional links with the United Kingdom, formally ending its Dominion status. The Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 from the"
"""Nieuw Zeeland"", after the Dutch province of ""Zeeland"". It was subsequently Anglicised as ""New Zealand"" by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark ""Endeavour"" who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during (1769–1770). The first European settlement in the South Island was founded at Bluff in 1823 by James Spencer, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo. In January 1827, the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville arrived in Tasman Bay on the corvette Astrolabe. A number of landmarks around Tasman Bay were named by d'Urville and his crew including d'Urville Island, French Pass and Torrent Bay."
"topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland. Sometime between 1250 and 1300, Polynesians settled in the islands that later were named New Zealand and developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, which declared British sovereignty over the islands. In 1841, New Zealand became a colony"
"to be part of the land of that name off the coast of Argentina that is now known as Isla de los 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 of the Netherlands in its Golden Age were Holland and Zeeland, and originally the Dutch explorers named the largest landmass of Oceania and the two islands to the southeast respectively Nieuw Holland and Nieuw Zeeland. The former was eventually replaced by the name Australia, but the name New Zealand remained in place"
"of the two main islands' west coasts. Tasman called them ""Staten Landt"", after the ""States General of the Netherlands"", and that name appeared on his first maps of the country. In 1645 Dutch cartographers changed the name to ""Nova Zeelandia"" in Latin, from ""Nieuw Zeeland"", after the Dutch province of ""Zeeland"". It was subsequently Anglicised as ""New Zealand"" by James Cook. Various claims have been made that New Zealand was reached by other non-Polynesian voyagers before Tasman, but these are not widely accepted. In spite of the VOC's historic successes and contributions, the Company has long been criticized for its"
"for a small rural town or locality in New Zealand. New Zealand place names Most New Zealand place names are derived from Māori and British sources. Both groups used names to commemorate notable people, events, places from their homeland, and their ships, or to describe the surrounding area. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the whole of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans, but post-colonisation the name ""Aotearoa"" (commonly translated as 'long white cloud') has been used to refer to the whole country. Dutch cartographers named the islands ""Nova Zeelandia,"" the Latin translation of the Dutch"
"New Brunswick New Brunswick (; ) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki Confederacy, many of whom still reside in the area. Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who eventually colonized most of the Maritimes and some of Maine as the colony of Acadia. The area was"
"New Ireland (island) New Ireland (Tok Pisin: ""Niu Ailan"") or Latangai, is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately in area with ca. 120,000 people. It is the largest island of New Ireland Province, lying northeast of the island of New Britain. Both islands are part of the Bismarck Archipelago, named after Otto von Bismarck, and they are separated by Saint George's Channel. The administrative centre of the island and of New Ireland province is the town of Kavieng located at the northern end of the island. While the island was part of German New Guinea, it was named"
"the province of New Netherland. By 1610, the VOC had already commissioned English explorer Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the so-called northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada. Hudson entered the Upper New York Bay by sailboat, heading up the Hudson River, which now bears his name. On March 27, 1614, the States General would move away from traditional monopolistic endeavors and take a new and freer approach to exploration and commercial development of the New World; the issuance of the ""General Charter for Those"
"Around 80% of New Zealanders are of at least partially British ancestry, and an estimated 17% are entitled to British passports. From the anglicisation of the Dutch appellation ""Nieuw Zeeland"" onward, historical ties with the United Kingdom have contributed substantially to New Zealand's toponymy. James Cook's early map combined local Māori place-names with a number of his own coinages. Subsequent settlers added references to places in United Kingdom, aristocratic sponsors, early British explorers, the Royal Family, battles in which the United Kingdom was involved and notable institutions such as Christ Church, Oxford. Many of these contributions have been retained in"
"Taranaki Province ""For the current top-level subdivision of Taranaki in New Zealand, see Taranaki region"" The Taranaki Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Initially known as New Plymouth Province, the province was renamed on 1 January 1859 as the Taranaki Province. With an area of some , New Plymouth Province was the smallest of the initial six provinces, and it was also the least populous. European settlement started in New Plymouth in 1841, which was the province's capital. For the first 30 years, European settlement did not extend many"
"'New Munster', and 'New Leinster'"". These divisions were at first of geographical significance only, not used as a basis for the government of the colony, which was centralised in Auckland. New Munster consisted of the South Island and the southern portion of the North Island, up to the mouth of the Patea River. The name New Munster was given by the Governor of New Zealand, Captain William Hobson, in honour of Munster, the Irish province in which he was born. The situation was altered in 1846 when the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846. divided the colony into two provinces: New"
"Netherlands New Guinea Netherlands New Guinea () refers to the Papua region of Indonesia while it was an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. Until 1949 it was a part of the Dutch East Indies. It was commonly known as Dutch New Guinea. It contained what are now Indonesia's two easternmost provinces, Papua and West Papua, which were administered as a single province prior to 2003 under the name ""Irian Jaya"". During the Indonesian Revolution, the Dutch launched 'police actions' to capture territory from the Indonesian Republic. However, the harsh methods of the Dutch"
"Munster had their own seals. New provinces were formed by the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (UK). This Act established a quasi-federal system of government and divided the country into the six provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago. Each province elected its own legislature known as a Provincial Council, and elected a Superintendent who was not a member of the council. The councils elected their speaker at their first meeting after elections. The Act also created a national General Assembly consisting of the Legislative Council appointed by the Governor and the directly elected House of Representatives."
"reason was that large landholders feared the growing influence of smaller farmers and urban residents. By splitting the Marlborough Province off with its large farms, it was easier for these landholders to control the provincial council. When the province was formed, Sir Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of New Zealand, named it after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. The settlement of Blenheim was subsequently named after the Battle of Blenheim (1704), where troops led by the Duke defeated a combined French and Bavarian force at the village of Blenheim (Blindheim) in Germany. The Marlborough Province was notable for its"
"European settlers divided New Zealand into provinces. These provinces were largely autonomous, each with an elected council and an elected chief official, called a superintendent. Provinces were abolished in 1876 so that government could be centralised, for financial reasons. As a result, New Zealand has no separately represented subnational entities such as provinces, states or territories, apart from local government. The provinces are remembered in regional public holidays and sporting rivalries. From 1876 onwards, local authorities have distributed functions varying according to the local arrangement. A system of counties similar to other countries' systems was instituted, lasting with little change"