New Holland

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What Wikipedia says

New Holland (Dutch: Het Niew Holland or Nieuw-Holland) is a historical European name for mainland Australia, first encountered by Europeans in 1606, by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard Duyfken.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “New Holland (Australia)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Melchisédech Thévenot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.