New Zealand place names
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 74 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5106-4427-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Most New Zealand place-names are derived from Maori and British sources. Both groups used names to commemorate notable people, events, places from their homeland, their ships or to described the surrounding area. The Maori did not have a collective name for New Zealand before European arrival, but post-colonisation the name Aotearoa (commonly translated as 'long white cloud') was used to refer to the whole country. Dutch cartographers named the islands Nova Zeelandia and British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand. The two main islands are known simply as the North and South Islands, although those names have never been formalised. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких...
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