In article , Dave Proctor
says...
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:49:17 -0000, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:

Until Lord of the Rings, the average person in EU or America would not
have a single image of New Zealand. Not one. ZERO.


As a european I beg to differ.

The all blacks in full cry and a Maori Haka both spring
to mind.

A Septic would probably ask what happened to the Old Zealand and why
they had to replace it.

It was once New Amsterdam.

Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.