Hello Miles!

29 Dec 04 06:10, you wrote to me:

 MM>> New Zealand is supposed to be antipodean to England,  but I
 MM>> suspect Denmark might be a little closer to some of NZ ...

 BS>> Yes, BTW I live on Zealand. :) Kinda funny. :)

 MM> There might be more than chance to that ... my memory of Abel
 MM> Tasman's first map of the area used a Dutch name like "Nieeuw
 MM> Zeeland" in 1642,  and I'm sure that there was an established
 MM> `Zeeland' at the antipode...

Aha. Ours is beeing called "Sj‘lland" in the native langauge, but
Zealand in English. Zeeland means "The land of lakes" in Dutch?
"Sj‘lland" can't be translated to that. Not sure of what it means
acutally.

 MM> Does `Zealand' mean something like `peninsula' ?

Hmm..?

Bo


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