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New Holland Island, Saint Petersburg, RUS; Ny-Friesland, Spitsbergen; Noten Eylant, New York, USA; ... List of place names of Dutch origin in the United States;
This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. Many originate from the Dutch colony of New Netherland .
Five out of six names were either renamed or forgotten or their locations were lost. [1] Other places were named after the early Dutch explorers by later British explorers or colonists, for instance the Australian state of Tasmania is named after Abel Tasman. Australia itself was called New Holland by the English and Nieuw Holland by the Dutch.
The names of some other settlements that were established still exist today as boroughs and neighborhoods of New York: Brooklyn , Wall Street (Wal Straat), Stuyvesant, Staten Island (named after the Dutch parliament, the Staten Generaal), Harlem , Coney Island (Konijnen Eiland, means "Rabbit Island") and Flushing .
Cape Arnhem is named after his ship, the Arnhem, which itself was named after the city of Arnhem. Groote Eylandt was first sighted the Arnhem. Only in 1644, when Abel Tasman arrived, was the island given a European name, Dutch for "Large Island" in an archaic
This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country ...
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
New Holland (Dutch: Nieuw-Holland) is a historical European name for mainland Australia, first encountered by Europeans in 1606, by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard Duyfken. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman , and for a time came to be applied in most European maps to the vaunted "Southern ...