1721-22 Dutch West Indies Company Expedition to the South Seas (commanded by Jacob Roggeveen aboard)

Roogeveen (1659-1729) was a Dutch explorer, sent in 1721 in search of Australia which he missed, though he did find Easter Island (on Easter Sunday) and also the Society Islands, Samoa, and Bora Bora. He surveyed a number of these islands, but lost one of his three vessels, had violent skirmishes with natives, and was arrested in Batavia where the East Indies Company arrested him and confiscated his other ships. He did at least reach 60˚S in rounding Cape Horn.

The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen.

Roggeveen, Jacob. Edited by Andrew Sharp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

1721-22 Dutch West Indies Company Expedition to the South Seas (commanded by Jacob Roggeveen aboard).
Arctic Reading: Europe including Scandinavia

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p. 9: Jan Roggeveen (brother?): referred to a book of charts shown by him previously by Jacob in Vere, saying that he had put such a book in Jacob’s chest for the voyage. The charts studied by them no doubt contained representations of islands…, and were mere spots of land separated by vast tracks of ocean….