This voyage was intended to confirm earlier knowledge of the Falklands in its path to Australia. It was too hurried to stop at the Falklands but it did find Easter Island before it reached New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) where Roggeveen’s journal ends, 18 July 1722.
[Journal]
Roggeveen, Jacob. [needs citation].
- 1721-22 Dutch South Seas Expedition to Australia (Jacob Roggeveen).
- Global Circumnavigations and Cape Horn Transits.
- Maritime Reading
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