User blog comment:Paulus99/An important question/@comment-31601543-20140906033814

Maybe it's like Canada. Here's a breif history lesson:It started out as a French colony named by (obviously) The French. Then after the French an Indian War & The Seven Years War, Britain aquired Canada as a British colony. But they kept the name and the rest is history. Maybe the Spanish found the island first but it was somehow taken by the British.