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Where Is “Old Zealand”?
Located just northwest of the Belgian city of Antwerp, Zeeland is more than 11,000 miles (17,700 km) from New Zealand. In December 1642 Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman was the first European to sight New Zealand’s South Island, and Dutch cartographers named the territory after the province of Zeeland.
See also:
Abel Tasman,
Zeeland
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New Mexico’s Georgia
In 1887 American painter Georgia O’Keeffe—best known for her large-format works of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of the New Mexico landscape—was born.