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No, the trap was of your making. I asked the question before you said anything about the made up names.
Tasmania is of course named after another Dutchman. And before it was called Tasmania it was called van Diemen's Land (he was the governor of the East Indies when Tasman discovered the island). And Australia was first called "New Holland" of course. So if history had taken a slightly different turn, or Captain Cook had not been such a good navigator, I might be speaking Dutch instead.
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