Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160620203004/@comment-188432-20160701235351

Here's something that at the very least allows us to say that, at least insofar as Amsterdam is concerned, "Holland" and "the Netherlands" are the same thing.


 * From The Arc of Infinity novelisation:


 * Suddenly, the Doctor snapped, "Tegan, where are you?" (emphasis in original)
 * "Holland," gasped Tegan. "Amsterdam".

Since The Waters of Amsterdam also places Amsterdam in the Netherlands, we can reasonably assume that it is correct in the DWU to think of Amsterdam as being in both Holland and the Netherlands.

We also know that an older name for Australia is "New Holland", a term Tegan had to adjust to in order to be understood by Polsbroek -- Mayor of Amsterdam and head of the East India Company -- and that someone named Tasman sent back reports of New Holland that Polsbroek could read. Not quite proof of what Holland is, but combined with the above exchange, it's nicely supporting evidence. (And interesting to our Australian articles.)