The Island That Looked Back - April 5, 1722

On Easter Sunday, 1722, a Dutch fleet sails out of an endless Pacific silence — and finds hundreds of stone giants staring back at them from shore. Jacob Roggeveen names the island after the holiday, but the Rapa Nui people and their towering moai have kept their own calendar for centuries. Step inside the moment two worlds locked eyes for the first time, and ask yourself: who was really doing the discovering?

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