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Jacob Roggeveen

1659 - 1729

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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, 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 his brother Jan Roggeveen, who stayed in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Roggeveen is the 42nd most popular explorer (up from 47th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 67th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Explorer.

Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was the first to discover Easter Island in 1722.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 42 out of 498. Before him are Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Pytheas, Francisco de Orellana, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Juan Ponce de León, and Daniel Boone. After him are Ingólfr Arnarson, Ernest Shackleton, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Martin Behaim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 2. Before him is Henry Purcell. After him are Hyacinthe Rigaud, Georg Ernst Stahl, Henry Every, Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Adriaen van der Werff, and Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1729, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 3. Before him are John Law, and Thomas Newcomen. After him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jean Meslier, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Johann David Heinichen, and Anthony Collins.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 60 out of 1,646. Before him are Frits Zernike (1888), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Tobias Asser (1838), Thomas Bernhard (1931), Paul Verhoeven (1938), and Rem Koolhaas (1944). After him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870), Frank Rijkaard (1962), Theo van Doesburg (1883), Theo van Gogh (1857), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), and Michiel de Ruyter (1607).

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Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 4. Before him are Abel Tasman (1603), Willem Barentsz (1550), and Jan van Riebeeck (1619). After him are Willem Schouten (1567), Willem Janszoon (1570), Frederick de Houtman (1571), Alexandrine Tinné (1835), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), and Anthony van Diemen (1593).

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