Jacob Roggeveen Samoa

through the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands and Samoa.

Jakob Roggeveen Wilkhahn Discoverer

Read more about this subject in these articles: 1722 the Netherlandish naval commander Jacob Roggeveen traversed the Pacific from eastern to western Europe on a journey of discovery, which also had trade destinations. It arrived on Easter Island, more from the Tuamotu archipelago, the northerly social group and some of the Samoan isles.

Jakob Roggeveen

1675 the states-general of the United Netherlands awarded Mr Roggeveen, an experienced teacher and teacher in maths, astrology and navigation science, a South Seas company statute. He passed away in 1679, but his dreams continued to live in his boys Jakob and Jan Jacob Roggeveen was engaged in a large part of his lifetime in a number of controversies.

Among his professions were Civil and Commercial Registrar of Middleburg (provincial capital), PhD in Legal Sciences and member of the Council of Justice in Batavia (now Jakarta in Indonesia) of the Dutch East Indian Society (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or VOC). A well-to-do man when he came back to Middleburg from East India in 1714, he was soon banished from the city when he regained his backing for theology.

At sixty-two years of age in 1721, Roggeveen turned to the Dutch West India Company to suggest a fact-finding mission to the uncharted areas of the Pacific Ocean, which were within the limits set out in the company's charter. Jacob's suggestion was supported by his sibling Jan, a Middleburg businessman, who assisted with the design and preparations after he was accepted.

In August 1721 Roggeveen led his exploration to the Falkland Islands, through the straits of Le Maire and around Cape Horn. Vessels sailed up the coastline of Chile; from 24 February to 17 March 1722 they moored on the Juan Fernández Islands, cleaned, repaired and supplied in expectation of the advance into the uncharted parts of the Pacific.

Following the study of the large, peculiar Easter Island rock icons and several days of interaction with their residents, the mission went westwards to see Bora Bora and Maupiti from the Society Isles and most of the Samoan Isles before arriving at the Dutch East India outpost of Jepara (now Java) on September 10, 1722.

As soon as the Batavia expansion arrived, the Dutch East India Company immediately confiscated the vessels and their cargo and detained Roggeveen and his men for infringing the company's exclusive rights in the area. The Dutch were only set free in November and arrived on 11 July 1723 on board the Dutch East Indies vessels.

The Amsterdam talks between the two competing firms eventually led to an indemnity for Roggeveen and its donors. Then he resettled in Middleburg, this year without any civil objections. However, somewhere Roggeven's primal diary of his Pacific journey, which documents his findings, had vanished. In 1836 a copy of the missing magazine, made by the writers of the Netherlands East India Company in Batavia, was found in a bunch of paper in the archive of the Netherlands West India Company in Middleburg.

This 1838 issue gave the first major report on the mission to the earth; the most beloved and well-known up to that time was the 1739 issue of Karl Friedrich Bezhrens in France. He was a low-ranking army official on the mission, and his paper included a number of objective mistakes and face-lift.