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The first-recorded European contact with the island took place on 5 April (Easter Sunday) 1722 when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen [21] visited for a week and estimated there were 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants on the island. His party reported "remarkable, tall, stone figures, a good 30 feet in height", the island had rich soil and a good climate ...
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 name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (5 April [40]) 1722, while searching for Davis or David's island. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (18th century Dutch for "Easter Island"). [41]
The Polynesian explorers who discovered and settled on Easter Island almost certainly had no prior knowledge that the place existed. Like many other ancient Polynesian explorer-colonists, they ...
Located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the island got its name in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen encountered it on Easter Sunday. The island being E.B.'s home, to our knowledge, is a ...
1722 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1722nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 722nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1722, the ...
The park has 887 Moai statues and 300 ceremonial platforms spread across the island, remnants of an extinct megalithic culture that were rediscovered in 1722 by a Dutch explorer. Easter Island is ...
1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers "Paasch Eiland" (Easter Island) and Tutuila and Upolu. [75] [76] 1728 – In the service of the Russian Empire, Danish-born Russian explorer Vitus Bering sails through the strait that now bears his name. He also discovers and names Saint Lawrence Island. [43]