Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 – 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, but instead found Easter...

the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (April 5) in 1722, while searching for "Davis Land". Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland...

only one survivor. The first description of island's demographics by Jacob Roggeveen in 1722 still claimed that the population consisted of two distinctive...

pronunciation of Pora Pora as Bola Bola or Bora Bora. When explorer Jacob Roggeveen first landed on the island, he and his crew adopted the name Bora Bora...

illustrative. On Easter Sunday, April 5th, 1722, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen stumbled on what today is known to those in the Anglosphere as Easter...

the Samoan Islands were first encountered by a European explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, who gave Tutuila the name Thienhoven Island. A popular island legend...

during or before the early 1800s. Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to record contact with the Rapa Nui. Roggeveen allegedly set sail either in search...

(3): 298–311. doi:10.2307/295030. JSTOR 295030. Hooker 2006. e.g. Jacob Roggeveen in 1722 reported the longitude of Easter Island as 268° 45' (starting...

island took place on 5 April (Easter Sunday) 1722 when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen visited for a week and estimated there were 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants...

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (5 April) 1722, while searching for Davis or David's island. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland...

pp. 1–237. ISBN 978-1-4391-5434-2. Roggeveen, Jacob (1970). Sharp, Andrew (ed.). The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-1982-1547-9...

Benjamin Franklin, is printed. April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen lands on what is now Easter Island. May 5 – Pennsylvania colony enacts...

János Apáczai Csere (1651) artist Romeyn de Hooghe (1689) explorer Jacob Roggeveen (1690) physician and chemist Hieronymus David Gaubius physician Herman...

emaciated appearance to them. In years after the arrival in 1722 of Jacob Roggeveen, all of the moai that had been erected on ahu were toppled; some last...

earliest Western sighting was June 13, 1722, during the voyage of Jacob Roggeveen, who called it Vuil Eiland "useless island." The name Rose Island comes...

tip of the Polynesian Triangle until the arrival of Dutch captain Jacob Roggeveen, who arrived at the island in 1722. The most visible element in the...

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raven-black hair, and rather flat noses. Heyerdahl claimed that when Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island in 1722, he supposedly noticed that many of...

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...

intensify until the arrival of the British missionaries. In 1722, Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to see the islands. This visit was followed...

de Queirós in 1606; Dutch mariners Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire in 1616; Jacob Roggeveen (who also first sighted Easter Island) in 1722; John Byron...

describes how to convert iron into steel. April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Jacob Roggeveen lands on Easter Island. Abraham de Moivre states de Moivre's formula...

Middelburg was the admiral and explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who was born in the city in 1659 and died there in 1729. Roggeveen discovered Easter Island (Rapa Nui)...

from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023. Jacob Roggeveen, "Het Brandende Veen", 1675; van Bouchenroeder, 1797, Nationaal Archief...

Islands, the Admiralty Islands and the Pitcairn. In 1722, the Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen sailed from Cape Horn to Batavia and discovered Easter Island and Samoa...

world). The first European to discover the island was Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on Easter day, 1722. As a result, he named it "Easter Island". He observed...

archaeology involved some significant events. 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrives at Easter Island. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1723:...

Contact with Europeans began in the early 18th century. Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen was the first known European to sight the Samoan Islands in 1722, calling...

(British); 1719–1722. Privateer, initially sailed with George Shelvocke. Jacob Roggeveen (Dutch); 1721–1724. George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (British); 1740–1744;...

1648 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright (d. 1724) 1659 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (d. 1729) 1663 – Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino...