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	Jakob Roggeveen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 - 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but he instead came across Easter Island by chance.
		His father, Arent Roggeveen, was a mathematician with much knowledge of astronomy, geography, and the theory of navigation as well.
		Roggeveen first sailed down to the Falkland Islands (which he renamed Belgia Australis), passed through the Strait of Le maire and continued south to beyond 60 degrees south to enter the Pacific Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob_Roggeveen (433 words)

	Zeeuws Archief - Gebouw - Text on the wall
		Jacob Roggeveen [link to page in Dutch], a lawyer from Middelburg, home town of the Dutch province of Zeeland.
		Jacob Roggeveen ter ontdekking van het Zuidland (1721-1722).
		An English translation of the journal by Jacob Roggeveen, with the additional information of significance from the log by Cornelis Bouwman quoted or cited in footnotes, was published in: Andrew Sharp (ed.), The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen (Oxford 1970).
	www.zeeuwsarchief.nl /gebouw/text.htm (663 words)

	Easter Island History
		On April 5 of 1722, a small fleet of three Dutch vessels commanded by Admiral Jacob Roggeveen arrived to the island.
		As that day was Easter Sunday, Jacob Roggeveen baptized his discovery with the name that is universally known, Easter Island.
		The report of the same scene according to K.F. Behrens, a German who was part of Roggeveen's crew, said that an islander in a canoe approached the Dutch ships, so he was invited on board.
	www.rapanuicentral.com /history.html (1026 words)

	Jared Diamond - Easter's End
		The island derives its name from its “discovery” by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, on Easter (April 5) in 1722.
		Roggeveen’s first impression was not of a paradise but of a wasteland. The island Roggeveen saw was a grassland without a single tree or bush over ten feet high. Their native animals included nothing larger than insects, not even a single species of native bat, land bird, land snail, or lizard.
		The islanders Roggeveen met were totally isolated, unaware that other people existed. Not a single Easter Island rock or product has turned up elsewhere, nor has anything been found on the island that could have been brought by anyone other than the original settlers or the Europeans.
	www.skewsme.com /easterisland.html (2265 words)

	Native Forest Council: News
		The moai and ahu were in use as early as AD 500, the majority were carved and erected between AD 1000 and 1650, and they were still standing when Jacob Roggeveen visited the island in 1722.
		Roggeveen maintained that Easter Island was exceptionally fertile.
		Roggeveen, J. An extract from the official log of Mynheer Jacob Roggeveen; Relating to his discovery of Easter Island.
	www.forestcouncil.org /tims_picks/view.php?id=1170 (13978 words)

	18th Century Discoveries - Easter Island - The Rosetta Stone
		The islanders were so isolated that they had never known of the existence of other people because, according to Roggeveen, the islanders' canoes were not capable of crossing the ocean.
		Roggeveen states that, "We originally, from a further distance, have considered the said Easter Island as sandy; the reason for that is this, that we counted as sand the withered grass, hay, or other scorched and burnt vegetation, because its wasted appearance could give no other impression than of a singular poverty and barrenness."
		When Roggeveen and his crew explored the island, they found massive stone statues in various stages of construction.
	www.history1700s.com /articles/article1079.shtml (706 words)

	Rapa Nui/Easter Island Primer - First contact
		Roggeveen made contact with the indigenous population and later wrote that; "when these (page 201) and admired the large stone statues that dotted the landscape.
		After departing Easter Island, Roggeveen was to discover some islands of the Tuamotu group.
		Whilst in Samoa after departing Easter Island, he was arrested because he had violated the monopoly of the Dutch East India Company, but the Company was later forced to release him, to compensate him for the trouble, and to pay his crew.
	www.apj.co.uk /rapanui_primer/primer_first_contact.asp (1152 words)

	The College Hill Independent - The Easter Tragedy
		In the same despair that they had consumed each other for sustenance, the islanders cannibalized their own legacy.
		This was the Easter Island that Admiral Jacob Roggeveen discovered in 1722.
		The inhabitants that the Europeans discovered on the island were actually the ones who had constructed the moais, centuries before, organized in a highly intricate and advanced civilization that had since collapsed due to the depletion of the island’s vast resources.
	www.brown.edu /Students/INDY/cms/content/view/70/32 (1452 words)

	History - Samoa - Oceania: history samoan, history samoa, nation pacific, jacob roggeveen, new zealand
		History - Samoa - Oceania: history samoan, history samoa, nation pacific, jacob roggeveen, new zealand
		The first European to explore the islands was the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen in 1722.
		However, little was known of Samoa until after the arrival of the London Missionary Society in 1830.
	www.countriesquest.com /oceania/samoa/history.htm (316 words)

	EASTER ISLAND VACATION TRAVEL
		The island, some 63 square miles of grass-covered volcanic rock in the South Pacific, was settled by Polynesians around 400 A.D. Their descendants had no known contact with the outside world until 1722, when the Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen anchored off the island, naming it in honor of his arrival on Easter Sunday.
		Roggeveen made known what he had seen: a barren island where hundreds of enormous human-shaped statues, called moai, lined the coast.
		Roggeveen's reports sparked the interest of other voyagers, and soon ships from Spain and England and France were headed there.
	www.easterisland-travel.com (672 words)

	Native Forest Council: News
		The island Roggeveen saw was a grassland without a single tree or bush over ten feet high.
		With such flora, the islanders Roggeveen encountered had no source of real firewood to warm themselves during Easter's cool, wet, windy winters.
		Investigators in all the years since his visit have discovered no trace of the islanders' having any outside contacts: not a single Easter Island rock or product has turned up elsewhere, nor has anything been found on the island that could have been brought by anyone other than the original settlers or the Europeans.
	www.forestcouncil.org /tims_picks/view.php?id=590 (3917 words)

	South Pacific Travel Blog: Easter Sunday on Easter Island
		On Easter Sunday, 1722, three Dutch ships under the command of Admiral Jacob Roggeveen sighted Easter Island.
		Roggeveen's men encountered 4,000 islanders who called their island Rapa Nui, which means "Great Rapa" in most Polynesian languages.
		Various other European explorers followed Roggeveen to Easter Island, but it was not until 1862 that the full disaster of European contact struck.
	www.southpacific.org /blog/2006/04/easter-sunday-on-easter-island.html (297 words)

	The Explorers Club
		These ships anchored on the north side of the island in a spot estimated to be one quarter of a mile off shore of what is now La Perouse Bay in 22 fathoms (132 feet) of water.
		Commander Roggeveen and his sailors stayed in the waters off Easter Island for 7 days.
		The primary goal of this Explorers Club Flag Expedition was to find Jacob Roggeveen’s lost anchors.
	www.explorers.org /expeditions/050hilton2004/050hilton2004.php (263 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Travel -- Short Cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EAST TO EASTER The isolated and mysterious Chilean territory of Easter Island lies in the east Pacific 3,000 km from the nearest population center.
		Dutch Admiral Jacob Roggeveen "discovered" the isle, dotted with hundreds of distinctive giant Moai statues, on Easter Sunday in 1722.
		A thriving and sophisticated society of 10,000 once called it home, but starvation, civil war and finally cannibalism decimated the place and much of its history and customs were lost.
	www.time.com /time/asia/travel/printout/0,9788,104656,00.html (231 words)

	Inquiring Minds Events & Activities
		A Dutch navigator named Jacob Roggeveen was sailing in the area in 1722, when he came upon this isolated Island in the Pacific.
		While exploring the island, Jacob and his crew came of hundreds of colossal statues that looked like giant heads.
		It is the statues that have been the subject of great mystery for over 250 years.
	www.inquiringminds.org /activities/travel-easterisland.html (352 words)

	Roggeveen Jacob - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roggeveen Jacob - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Roggeveen, Jacob (1659-1729), Dutch merchant and explorer, who made a Pacific voyage in which he became the first European to sight several...
		Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Roggeveen_Jacob.html (55 words)

	Easter Island Controveries (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Until of course, that fateful day in 1722 when, on Easter Sunday, Dutch commander Jacob Roggeveen, became the first European to "discover" the island.
		This does not fit well in the Polynesian only scenario and despite recent evidence that backs up a migration from another island in the South Pacific, archeologists still must argue the claims of the most well-known, but now, outcast archeologist/explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
		Roggeveen's notes tell of the islanders being organized into several classes.
	mysteriousplaces.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Easter_Island/html/contro.html (713 words)

	Chauvet - Bibliography
		Twee jahrige reyze rondom de wereld met drie scheper (1721) door last v.d.: Nederl Westind, Maatschappen.
		Voyage to Easter Island, 1770 à 1771, Londres (Précéde d’un extrait de la relation de bord officielle de Roggeveen sur sa découverte et visite à l’Ile de Pâques en 1772.) Transcrits par: B.C. Corney Hahluyt Society in-8: Londres, 1908.
		Jacob Roggeveen met de schepan der Arend, Thienhoven en de Afrikaansche Galei, in den jaren 1721 en 1722.
	www.chauvet-translation.com /biblio.htm (2377 words)

	Easter Island Radio
		This material is licenced on a non-exclusive basis to South Pacific DX Resource hosted on radiodx.com for a period of five years from May 1 2002.
		It was on Easter Sunday in the year 1722 that the Dutch navigator, Admiral Jacob Roggeveen, discovered and named Easter Island.
		Easter Island lies in the South Pacific half way between South America and Pitcairn Island, and Pitcairn is located about half way between South America and Australia.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/easter_island_radio.htm (485 words)

	SCDC:Culture:History of Samoa
		These settlers probably came from Indo-Malaysia and continued to spread to other Polynesian islands including Hawaii, Tahiti and New Zealand.
		The first European to come in contact with Samoans was a Dutch Navigator name Jacob Roggeveen in 1722.
		However, little was known of Samoa until the London Missionary society arrived in 1830 on a ship called Messenger of Peace under John Williams.
	www.samoancenter.org /pages/cu_brief.html (455 words)

	American Samoa map and information page by World Atlas
		American Samoa and its small group of islands were first settled by the Polynesians some 3,000 years ago.
		In 1722 they were discovered by Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutch explorer.
		In 1900 it became an unorganized U.S. territory, and in fact, it's today the only U.S. territory located south of the Equator.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/as.htm (409 words)

	History - American Samoa - Oceania: department interior, national park, home polynesian, acres land, civil war
		The later migration displaced the original Samoans, who then began to colonize the more easterly islands of Polynesia.
		The first European to visit the islands in 1722 was Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutch navigator.
		In 1768 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a French explorer, named the group the Navigators Islands.
	www.countriesquest.com /oceania/american_samoa/history.htm (397 words)

	Education World® - *History : By Region : Pacific / Oceania : General Resources
		Eighteenth Century Ethnographic Collections Project See photos and read about this Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's collection of artifacts culled from European explorations of the Pacific.
		European Discovery of Easter Island Recounts the arrival of Jacob Roggeveen and his Dutch crew on Easter Island in 1722 and James Cook's later trip to the island in 1774.
		Events Matrixing: Restriction, Confusion and Neglect in the Bounty Mutiny A fascinating academic thesis by Ian Campbell examining the causes, effects, and personalities of the Bounty Mutiny.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=1335 (590 words)

	SAMOANET - American Samoa - History of the Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Who the first Polynesians were, who settled in what is now American Samoa, will probably never be accurately determined, but most archaeologists fix the date at around 600 B.C. These first inhabitants probably arrived in Tonga and the Samoas from the west, perhaps by way of Indonesia, the New Hebrides and Fiji.
		Samoa's long isolation from the western world ended in 1722 when the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen came upon the islands.
		It wasn't until 1831, however that european influence had any real impact.
	www.samoanet.com /americansamoa/history/astahist.html (312 words)

	Aviation Photos: PH-BDP (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		PH-BDP (cn 24404/1681) "Jacob Roggeveen" made some touch and goes at a snowy Sturup.
		PH-BDP (cn 24404/1681) 'Jacob Roggeveen' just starting its take-ff roll on 24L.
		PH-BDP (cn 24404/1681) Making the most of the low winter sun
	www.airliners.net.cob-web.org:8888 /search/photo.search?regsearch=PH-BDP&distinct_entry=true (153 words)

	Easter Island History
		Many people have found Easter Island history very fascinating!
		On Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722, a Dutch sea captain named Jacob Roggeveen landed his ship on an island known as Te Pito o Te Henua, meaning “The Center of the World.” Captain Roggeveen renamed the island Easter Island.
		Located 2200 miles (3500 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, it is the world’s remotest inhabited island.
	www.allaboutpopularissues.org /easter-island.htm (736 words)

	Jacob Roggeveen-toren, Maassluis
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