place
New Zealand
also: Новая Зеландия
A remote Pacific nation, cited here as a comically exotic backdrop for one of Bolvanius's invented academic posts.
Reading notes
- Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §987 New Zealand savages
The squib's punchline: since the Petersburg ladies were absurdly made "honorary citizens" of New Zealand by its indigenous people, their comic service record is addressed back to them -- a period joke trading on stereotypes of the exotic "savage" as the only fitting audience.
- The Flying Islands, by Jules Verne, Translated by A. Chekhonte §22 University of New Zealand
New Zealand, cited here as a comically remote, exotic locale to cap Bolvanius's list of impossible and fictitious academic posts.