User blog comment:KatDWolf/I wonder..../@comment-1616397-20100118024228

New Zealand was never owned by the Dutch, only "discovered" by one. Tasmania is named after the guy who "discovered" New Zealand, Abel Tasman, but the Dutch never owned that island either. The only thing the Dutch ever owned in that part of the world was Indonesia. The first European claim to New Zealand was by Captain James Cook, without whom we wouldn't have had golf tournaments the last two weeks.