How about a Frenchification of Aotearoa? Auteroux, perhaps? I’ve used that on a map or two.
The thing is, that probably wouldn’t be until after Decolonization.
Not necessarily: the French did adopt local names for things a lot (though usually got them wrong), such as Soudan and Dahomey. If a French explorer manages to ask ‘what is this place’ or ‘where are you from’ to a Maori, that could conceivably carry back to Paris and get popularised.
Not necessarily: the French did adopt local names for things a lot (though usually got them wrong), such as Soudan and Dahomey. If a French explorer manages to ask ‘what is this place’ or ‘where are you from’ to a Maori, that could conceivably carry back to Paris and get popularised.
Use of Nouvelle Zélande is attested since the XVIIIth century at latest in French maps.Agreed. It's not like Illinois and a couple of other places in North America survived a French mangling (Illinois was originally Illinawek or somesuch, and the French screwed it up).
Not sure that's true. No one refers to it as Van Diemens Land anymore or Cathay or New Spain but as Tasmania, China and the West Coast/MexicoThen you need a POD before it was named New Zealand
Not sure that's true. No one refers to it as Van Diemens Land anymore or Cathay or New Spain but as Tasmania, China and the West Coast/Mexico
Then you need a POD before it was named New Zealand
See New Caledonia which the French kept the European given name
Indeed. What would they do there(or Australia for that matter) ????Depending on what PoD puts Novelle-Zealande in French hands, I wonder if Wellington would be named Richelieu.
Maybe there could be a Maori French speaking aristocracy evolving under French colonial administration.Given that the French didn't get much of a chance to claim New Zealand, due to being late and the Brits getting in there first. If France did get there early and managed to colonise New Zealand what would its name be?