Theories

Eater Island is a Polynesian Island at the southern most point of the Polynesian triangle. The name Easter Island was given by the Island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it pm Easter Sunday. The current Polynesian name of the Island, "Rapa Nui" or "Big Rapa" was coined after the slang raids of the early 1860's because of Easter Islands geographic resemblance to the Island of Rapa in the bass Island of Austral Islands group.