Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 on Nostr: Just had someone (on a less desirable social media) tell me that "there's no such ...
Just had someone (on a less desirable social media) tell me that "there's no such thing as Aotearoa! It's New Zealand". I informed them that, if they want to give naming rights to someone who 'discovered' a land that was already quite well populated by folks who had presumably discovered it quite a bit prior, then the real name they should be using is Nieuw Zeeland, because that's what Abel Tasman called it. But, my friends & I live in Aotearoa NZ, so I can assure them it most definitely exists.
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