New South Wales

I wonder if any of You tried to find a explanation for the name of "our" State? : )

If to follow what Wikipedia says James Cook was the man who gave us a name. In the journal covering his survey of the eastern coast of the Australian continent, Cook first named the east coast of Australia "New Wales", which he later corrected in his journal to "New South Wales".

I wonder what was his connection to Wales in UK? As I see it is unclear. Maybe he wanted to commemorate his spoiled-by-voyages affection to Lady from Wales : )


And I wonder whether You tried to guess why I decided to name my blog this way ("Polishman in New Wales) :). I heard about Cook just recently. But I felt like an alien from the very beginning just like Enlglishman in New York : )




But story of name for New York is well-known. This province was named for James, Duke of York, brother to Charles II of England in 1664. He never has visited this land, though.

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.

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