Another name for Easter Island is Rapa Nui.
The native name for Easter Island is Rapa Nui.
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 1722, while searching for Davis or David's island . -from wikipedia "Easter Island"
Easter Island was named by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen who arrived on the island on Easter Sunday in 1722. This day was significant as it coincided with the Christian holiday of Easter, leading Roggeveen to name the island "Easter Island."
The first European to discover the island did so on Easter Sunday, 1722.
Rapa Nui is the Polynesian name for Easter Island.
The island was discovered by Jacob Roggaveen on Easter Sunday 1722
No. There is no a name for the heads of the East Island.
What is Easter Island.
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 1722, while searching for Davis or David's island . -from wikipedia "Easter Island"
The people from Easter Island are called Rapa Nui from the saying " Big Rapa".
Jacob Roggeveen, captain of Dutch fleet, found the Island on the day of April 5th, 1722. That day was Easter Sunday. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (18th century Dutch for "Easter Island"). The island's official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, also means "Easter Island".
Jacob Roggveen was the captain of the person who discovered Easter Island.
The noun 'Easter Island' is a proper noun, the name of a specific place.
by the indians and there was a Dutch sailer in 1772 who was sailing down by the tip of South America on Easter Day, hence the name Easter Island
Easter Island derived its name from Dutch explorers who first visited the island on Easter Sunday, 1722. From the 2002 census some 39 percent of the population of 3,971 are of European or Chilean descent. Based on that and the probability that some of these people are Christian, Easter is observed on Easter Island.
The statues on Easter Island are called moai. They are large stone figures that were built by the Rapa Nui people between the 13th and 16th centuries.