Jacob Roggeveen
1659-1729
Dutch admiral who was the first European to discover Easter Island. On Easter Sunday in 1722, Jacob Roggeveen and his crew found the remote island off the coast of Chile. The...
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Jacob Roggeveen
Born 1659, Holland Died 1729, Holland
0ne of the great legends that circulated among countries pursuing the exploration of the world was the possible existence of a vast southern cont...
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