Easter Island
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English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch Paaseiland. Named by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (an 18th century Dutch spelling). The island's official Spanish name, isla de Pascua, also means “Easter Island”.
Proper noun
- An island in the South Pacific, belonging to Chile and famous for its moai monuments.
- 1755, A New Universal Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 320:
- The commodore, after he had quitted this iſland, ſailed 12 degrees to the weſtward, having ſight of a number of birds, which attended them till they arrived at a ſmall iſland about 16 leagues in extent, which they called Paſch, or Eaſter Iſland, from the day on which it was diſcovered.
Translations
Island in the Pacific
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Further reading
Easter Island on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
