Origin of "New Holland"

[dennis52]

New Holland was the pre European settlement name on old maps of what is now called Australia. It was, of course, assigned by Dutch navigators in the 1600's.
Is their any connection to the tractor brand?

 

[bcp]

From:
About New Holland

1895

Abe Zimmerman began in an equipment repair shop in 1895 in New Holland, Pennsylvania, USA, which is where our name comes from. In the same year, Alexandre Braud introduced stationary threshers to farmers in western France.

1903

Zimmerman started the New Holland Machine Company and was producing agricultural products, including a feed mill, to help the farming community around him.