1 moment from 1722 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
On 5 April 1722, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to reach Rapa Nui, a remote island in the Pacific. Because of the day, he named it Easter Island. He found the giant stone statues, the moai, carved by the island's Polynesian people. Hundreds still stand.
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