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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 ...
In 1722, Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to visit the Manu'a islands, located on the eastern end of the Samoan island chain. In 1768, the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville visited the islands of Samoa and dubbed them the "Navigator Islands," after the islanders' practice of navigating the nearby waters in canoes to catch tuna. [10]
On 10 June 1596, Barentsz and Dutchman Jacob van Heemskerk discovered Bear Island, [1] [2] [3] a week before their discovery of Spitsbergen Island. [1] [2] [3] Portion of 1599 map of Arctic exploration by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen, here mapped for the first time, is indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), center-left.
Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman, was the first known non-Polynesian to sight the Samoan islands in 1722. ... A map of Samoa Topography of Samoa.
In 1722, Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to sight the islands. Missionaries and traders arrived in the 1830s. Halfway through the 19th century, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States all claimed parts of the kingdom of Samoa, and established trading posts.
Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.
Jacob Roggeveen, 1722; Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1768; Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, 1787; John Williams, 1830–1839; United States Territory of American Samoa, since December 2, 1899 Anglo-German Samoa Convention, November 14, 1899; Division of the Samoan archipelago, December 2, 1899; Constitution of American Samoa of ...
Map from Behrens' travel report. Carl Friedrich Behrens (Rostock in Mecklenburg, 1701–1750) was a German sailor and soldier who sailed as a corporal during the expedition led by Jacob Roggeveen to Southern Land, during which Easter Island was discovered, and he was among the first Europeans to set foot there.