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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 .
Amsterdam Island, Spitsbergen; Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean; Bear Island, Norway; Bedloe's Island, now Liberty Island, New York-NJ, USA; Block Island ...
It is near where Tasman first sighted Tasmania. The township of Zeehan, Tasmania near Mount Zeehan was established after the discovery of tin, lead and silver deposits in 1890. Geelvink Channel was named after a ship, but the ship was named after Joan Geelvinck; Vansittart Bay on the coast of Western Australia is a unique anomaly.
In some cases the native meanings of a place name are wholly lost, despite guesses and theories, for example Tampa and Oregon. Place names in the United States tend to be more easily traceable to their origins, such as towns simply named after the founder or an important politician of the time, with no alterations except a simple suffix, like ...
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.
A place in Virginia. Ballplay: It's named after a game Native Americans played to solve tribal disputes, now stop laughing - when Native Americans played their variety of "football" instead, that game's name had seven syllables! Balltown: A city in Iowa. Ballinspittle: A village in County Cork, Ireland. Ballykillaboy
It was one of the first parts of South Australia to be discovered and named by Europeans, along with St Peter Island. Thijssen named it after his patron saint, St. Francis. St Peter Island is an island on the south coast of South Australia near Ceduna to the south of Denial Bay. It is the second largest island in South Australia at about 13 km ...
Just off the Lakewalk is a park named Gichi-Ode' Akiing; the name is Ojibwe for "a grand heart place". [112] The Duluth City Council approved the name change from Lake Place Park in 2018. [ 113 ] A memorial to Kechewaishke , also known as Chief Buffalo, honors his symbolic petition carried to president Millard Fillmore in 1849. [ 114 ]