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Easter Island Was Discovered on Easter Sunday

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on the remote Polynesian island on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722, and named it accordingly. The Rapa Nui people had inhabited the island for over 800 years and called it Te Pito o Te Henua — "the navel of the world."

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