Where does the name "Easter Island" actually come from, which is the home of our cosmetics brand Anakena?
This is an interesting story: Jacob Roggeveen was given three ships and 260 crew by the Dutch West India Company to sail to the Southern Ocean, discover new lands and search for the fabulous "Terra Australis Incognita". He set sail on June 16, 1721, and reached the Pacific in January 1722 after rounding Cape Horn. During his circumnavigation, on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722 (Roggeveen writes April 6, in fact Easter Sunday 1722 was April 5), he "discovered" the island of Rapa Nui, located in the South Pacific, to which he gave the name Paasch Eyland (Easter Island).
Since last year, the island is now officially called Rapa Nui (by the way, just like its indigenous population and its language), politically belonging to Chile, but geographically to Polynesia. Mistakenly, in German usage people often speak of "Easter Islands", but it is in fact only one.
Another curious fact:
Jacob Roggeveen:
Born: February 1, 1659, Middelburg, Netherlands
Died: 31 January 1729, Middelburg, Netherlands
-> so he died one day before his 70th birthday
