New Holland (Australia) Totally Explained

New Holland is a historic name for the island continent of Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman as Nova Hollandia, naming it after the Dutch province of Holland, and remained in use for over 150 years.
After the establishment of a settlement at New South Wales in 1788, which encompassed the eastern part of the continent, the term New Holland was more often used to refer only to that part of the continent that hadn't yet been annexed to New South Wales; thus it referred to the area of land that's now Western Australia.
In 1804, Matthew Flinders recommended that the name Australia be adopted in preference to New Holland, but it wasn't until 1824 that the name change received official sanction by the United Kingdom. In the Netherlands Nieuw Holland would remain the usual name of the continent until the end of the 19th century; it's now no longer in use.

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