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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 .
Beira Lake, Sri Lanka (see Sri Lankan place name etymology#Dutch) Harlem Meer, New York, USA; Mountains ... Hottentots-Holland Mountain Range, Western Cape, South Africa;
On rare occasions, such formations may occur by coincidence when a place is named after a person who shares their name with the feature. Examples include the Outerbridge Crossing named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge , the Hall Building of Concordia University named after Henry Foss Hall , and Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens in Santa Barbara ...
The Australian coast known to Dutch explorers until 1644. Note the whole east coast is missing. Of an estimated 200 place names the Dutch bestowed on Australian localities in the 17th century as a result of the Dutch voyages of exploration along the western, northern and southern Australian coasts, only about 35 can still be found on current maps.
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.
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Ee, one of the Cook Islands; Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone, Italy, a wine region; Fakfak, West Papua, Indonesia; Fengfeng Mining District, Hebei, China; Gan Gan, Argentina; Gargar, Armenia: not an actual reduplication in Armenian, as the two ‘r’ sounds are different in this place name and are spelled using different letters.
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 ...