New Holland
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English
Etymology
(sense 1) Coined in 1644 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman as Nieuw Holland.
(sense 2) Uncertain, Parts of Holland was in the south of Lincolnshire.
Proper noun
- (obsolete) The continent and the country of Australia.
- Synonyms: Australia, (obsolete) Terra Australis
- 1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London
- 1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
- Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown.
- A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823). [1]
- A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
- A village in Logan County, Illinois.
- A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
- A community of Hyde County, North Carolina.
- A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
- (historical) Synonym of Dutch Brazil
Translations
obsolete: Australia
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