* 1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.

Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island.

Easter Island and Juan Fernández Archipelago, including Robinson Crusoe Island, are also major attractions.

Topographic map of Easter Island.

** Rano Kau ( Easter Island, Chile )

Easter Island

Easter Island has suffered from heavy soil erosion in recent centuries, aggravated by agriculture and deforestation.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, Easter Island experienced severe erosion due to deforestation and unsustainable agricultural practices.

The resulting loss of topsoil ultimately led to ecological collapse, causing mass starvation and the complete disintegration of the Easter Island civilization.

Shortly after Easter, 1546, he returned to Ambon Island and later Malacca.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

Easter Island is one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, and for most of the History of Easter Island it was the most isolated inhabited territory on Earth.

Hawaii is the apex of the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawaii, Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ), and Aotearoa ( New Zealand ).

* Most of the moai of Easter Island were toppled during the 18th century in the iconoclasm of civil wars.

The archipelago administratively belongs to Chile's Valparaíso Region ( which also includes Easter Island ), and more specifically forms one of the nine communes ( comunas ) of the Valparaíso Province named Juan Fernández.

On July 30, 2007, a constitutional reform gave the Juan Fernández Islands and Easter Island the status of special territories of Chile.

** Kings of Easter Island

A statue or group of statues that are common on Easter Island.

Obsidian was also used on Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ) for edged tools such as Mataia and the pupils of the eyes of their Moai ( statues ).

Almost all of the smaller islands of the Pacific lie between 30 ° N and 30 ° S, extending from Southeast Asia to Easter Island ; the rest of the Pacific Basin is almost entirely submerged.

The great triangle of Polynesia, connecting Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand, encompasses the island arcs and clusters of the Cook Islands, Marquesas Islands, Samoa, Society, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tuvalu and the Wallis and Futuna islands.

Matlin is actively involved with a number of charitable organizations, including Easter Seals ( where she was appointed an Honorary Board Member ), the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, VSA arts, and the Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet.

Wilson's charity work includes the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, the American Cancer Society, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, the Easter Seals Foundation, UNICEF, The NAACP, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the All-Star Network, and Figure Skaters of Harlem, a youth organization devoted to helping children towards entering the Olympics.

In addition to the replica and real stones comprising the monument, there are also two fabricated Moai, or Easter Island ( Rapa Nui / Isla de Pascua ) statues located at the Hill Country Arts Foundation.

The Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia began to use the Easter Bilby concept in 1991 to show the damage that feral rabbits do to the Australian environment and the concept has been popularised by the confectioner Darrell Lea, which gives a portion of its profits to the foundation.

Jenny Craig is involved in a number of philanthropic causes including the San Diego Hospice, Easter Seals, United Way / CHAD, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Peace At Home's domestic violence prevention program, among others.

Four matches were played in Sydney on the New South Wales Rugby Football League's " Foundation Day " on 20 April 1908 ( Easter Monday ) in two double headers.

The town of Termi, near Ladea Tower, is an homage to the original Phantasy Star, featuring statues of Alis and Myau and the shop called " Bayamare ," a reference to the tower of Baya Malay, which sells numerous Easter Egg items that previously appeared in Phantasy Star.

The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.

The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (), which itself developed prior to 899, originally referring to the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre.

( Incidentally, the date of Easter itself is fixed by an approximation of lunar cycles used in the Hebraic calendar, but according to the historian Bede the English name " Easter " comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the vernal ( spring ) equinox.

A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script

* The Easter Rising is discussed in the television series Downton Abbey, which is set in an English country estate during the 1910s.

The city is renowned for its Easter related Holy Week activities and traditions, culminating between Good Friday and Holy Saturday in the Processione dei Misteri di Trapani, colloquially simply the Misteri di Trapani ( in English the Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani or the Mysteries of Trapani ), a day long passion procession organized and sponsored by the city's guilds, featuring twenty floats of lifelike wood, canvas and glue sculptures, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.

Bede placed his description of the event centrally in his narrative, and he has been recognised as overemphasizing the historical significance of the synod because Easter calculation was of special interest to him, and also because he wished to stress the unity of the English Church.

It addressed the issue of Easter calculation and the proper monastic tonsure, and concerned only the part of the English Church that answered to the See of Lindisfarne – that is, it was a Northumbrian affair.

In the German language, the term " Weißer Sonntag " ( literally: " White Sunday ") does not refer to Whitsunday but rather to the first Sunday after Easter, known in English as either " Octave Day of Easter " or " Low Sunday ".

A delegation of senior English clergy met with Henry and his advisers at Stockbridge shortly before Easter.

Theodore conducted a survey of the English church, appointed various bishops to sees that had been vacant for some time, and then called the Synod of Hertford to institute reforms concerning the proper celebration of Easter, episcopal authority, itinerant monks, the regular convening of subsequent synods, marriage and prohibitions of consanguinity, and others.

The Irish Synod of Mag Léne in 631 decided in favor of either the Dionysian or Victorian Easter and the northern English Synod of Whitby in 664 adopted the Dionysian tables.

Ēostre or Ostara ( Northumbrian Old English: Ēostre ; West Saxon Old English: Ēastre ; ) is a goddess in Germanic paganism who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name ( Northumbrian: Ēosturmōnaþ ; West Saxon: Ēastermōnaþ ; Old High German: Ôstarmânoth ), is the namesake of the festival of Easter.

The modern English term " Easter " is the direct continuation of Old English Ēastre, whose role as a goddess is attested solely by Bede in the 8th century.

* The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, With a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A. D. A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne.

In April 1914 he spent part of his Easter vacation with Delius, at Grez, and worked with the composer on the scores of An Arabesque and Fennimore and Gerda, in the latter case providing an English version of the libretto.