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Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 – 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, [1] but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday). Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. He planned the expedition along with ...
The 21-year-old Carl Friedrich enlisted in 1721 and set sail on August 1 of that year as a crew member of the sea voyage led by Jacob Roggeveen, with three ships and 244 soldiers and sailors. It was a project of the Dutch West India Company with the aim of exploring trade opportunities in the so-called "Southern Land."
The log of the Leeuwin has been lost, so very little is known of the voyage. However, the land discovered by the Leeuwin was recorded on a 1627 map by Hessel Gerritsz : Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Chart of the Land of Eendracht"), which appears to show the coast between present-day Hamelin Bay and Point D’Entrecasteaux .
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Alderney, Channel Islands. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. [112] [117] Jacob Roggeveen Netherlands: The ship was driven ashore at Probolinggo, Netherlands East Indies. She was on a voyage from Java, Netherlands East Indies to a Dutch ...
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen lands on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). 1732 Russian geodesist Mikhail Spiridonovich Gvozdev sails from Petropavlovsk on Kamchatka to Cape Dezhnev, the easternmost point of continental Eurasia, thence east across the Bering Strait to Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the continental ...
A logbook (a ship's logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship. It is essential to traditional navigation, and must be filled in at least daily. The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log that was used to estimate a ship's speed through the ...
Jacob Roggeveen (Dutch); 1721–1724. George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (British); 1740–1744; in HMS Centurion. John Byron (British); 1764–1766; in HMS Dolphin. Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret (British); 1766–1768; in HMS Dolphin and HMS Swallow; Carteret had served on Byron's expedition. Dolphin was the first ship to survive two ...
April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen lands on what is now Easter Island. [2] May 5 – Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.