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Jacob Roggeveen

1659 - 1729

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Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 – 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday). Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Roggeveen has received more than 179,191 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Jacob Roggeveen is the 47th most popular explorer (up from 49th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 73rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Explorer.

Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was the first to discover Easter Island in 1722.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 47 out of 498. Before him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Richard E. Byrd, Frederick de Houtman, Sven Hedin, Zhang Qian, and Diego de Almagro. After him are Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Robert Falcon Scott, Samuel de Champlain, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Ernest Shackleton, and Diogo Cão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 3. Before him are Henry Purcell, and Hyacinthe Rigaud. After him are Henry Every, Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang, Georg Ernst Stahl, Pieter van der Aa, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Adriaen van der Werff, and Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1729, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Newcomen, John Law, and Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Jean Meslier, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Johann David Heinichen, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Louis Antoine de Noailles, and Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 67 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Tinbergen (1903), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Simon van der Meer (1925), Johan de Witt (1625), Gerrit Rietveld (1888), and Ronald Koeman (1963). After him are Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), William V, Prince of Orange (1748), Dieric Bouts (1415), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836), Rob Rensenbrink (1947), and Dries van Agt (1931).

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Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 5. Before him are Abel Tasman (1603), Willem Barentsz (1550), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), and Frederick de Houtman (1571). After him are Willem Schouten (1567), Willem Janszoon (1570), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Alexandrine Tinné (1835), Anthony van Diemen (1593), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), and Olivier van Noort (1558).

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