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  2. History of Easter Island - Wikipedia

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    Easter Island's long isolation was ended on Easter Sunday, 1722, when a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, discovered the island. He named it for the Holy day. The Dutch were amazed by the great statues, which they thought were made from clay.

  3. Jacob Roggeveen - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Easter Island - Wikipedia

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    Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.

  5. Here's the Real Story Behind the Easter Bunny - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of Dutch explorations - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Satellite imagery may provide a missing puzzle piece in ...

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    New research using satellite imagery and machine learning offers a fresh clue in the mystery of what happened to the original settlers of Easter Island. Satellite imagery may provide a missing ...

  9. Exploration of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    By 100 AD they were in the Marquesas Islands and 300-800 AD in Tahiti (Tahiti is west of the Marquesas.) 300-800 AD is also given for their arrival at Easter Island, their easternmost point and the same date range for Hawaii, which is far to the north and distant from other islands. Far to the southwest, New Zealand was reached about 1250 AD.