* 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

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.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, world-famous theologian and medical missionary, has endorsed an Easter March for Disarmament which begins tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

This translation of go ' el in Job 19: 25-26 as " Redeemer " has been made famous by its use in Handel's Messiah, the Air I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the lectionary during the Easter season.

The wearing of costumes has become an important part of such holidays and festivals as Mardi Gras and Halloween ( see Halloween costume for more information ), and ( to a lesser extent ) people may also wear costumes in conjunction with other holidays, such as Christmas and Easter.

In the U. S., such an Easter egg roll ( unrelated to an eggroll ) is often done on flat ground, pushed along with a spoon ; the Easter Egg Roll has become a much-loved annual event on the White House lawn.

In French, the name of Easter Pâques also derives from the Latin word but the s following the a has been lost and the two letters have been transformed into a â with a circumflex accent by elision.

The precise date of Easter has at times been a matter for contention.

Since 1582, when the Catholic Church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox and most Oriental Orthodox Churches retained the Julian calendar, the date on which Easter is celebrated has again differed.

The Gregorian calculation of Easter was based on a method devised by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius ( or Lilio ) for adjusting the epacts of the moon, and has been adopted by almost all Western Christians and by Western countries who celebrate national holidays at Easter.

Because the Julian calendar's implicit solar year has drifted further over the centuries than those of the Gregorian or Hebrew calendars, Julian Easter is a lunation later than Gregorian Easter in five years out of nineteen, namely years 3, 8, 11, 14, and 19 of the Christian cycle.

This cumulative effect of the errors in the Julian calendar's solar year and lunar age has led to the often-repeated, but false, belief that the Julian cycle includes an explicit rule requiring Easter always to follow Jewish Passover.

Easter Road StadiumEdinburgh has two professional football clubs – Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian.

The Scottish national team has occasionally played at Easter Road and Tynecastle.

For centuries, it has been the custom of many Christians to share dyed and painted eggs, particularly on Easter Sunday.

Celebration of Easter on a Sunday, as insisted on by the pope, is the system that has prevailed ( see computus ).

Reform of the date of Easter has been proposed several times because the current system for determining the date of Easter is seen as presenting two significant problems:

It has been proposed that the first problem could be resolved by making Easter occur on a fixed date every year, or alternatively on a Sunday within a fixed range of seven dates.

There is also a series of apparition phenomena known as Our Lady of Soufanieh that has urged for a common date of Easter.

* Easter Island, in the south Pacific Ocean, has been occupied by Neolithic seafarers under Hotu Matua (" supreme chief ") who about this time begin the fortify the island.

Easter Island has been cited as an example of a human population crash.

The 20-million-ton object has a 1 in 250, 000 chance of hitting Earth on Easter Sunday.

Driving from Canberra to Sydney, en route to his home in Tasmania for Easter, he suffered a heart attack, dying soon after in hospital in Sydney, on Good Friday.

Having contracted a virus during a Christmas trip up the River Amazon in 1991, Howerd suffered respiratory problems at the beginning of April 1992 and was rushed to London's Harley Street Clinic, but was released at Easter to enjoy his last few days at home.

The river Great Ouse at St Ives flooded in 1947, and some parts suffered seriously again at Easter 1998 and in January 2003.

The one to the north celebrates Easter, the plain one to the south was probably decorative but suffered from bomb damage in the Second World War.

At Loos, in January and February 1916, the division was introduced to trench warfare and suffered greatly in the Battle of Hulluch, 27 – 29 April, ( during the Easter Rising in Ireland ).

Emma wanted a quiet Easter, so Laura and Henrietta left on 4 April, but on the 4th and 5th Darwin suffered attacks, noting " much pain ".

During the Easter Monday game against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats at the DW Stadium, Amos suffered an injury to his knee ligaments after colliding with the post in the process of scoring his 12th try of the season.