Europeans gave Easter Island its name because it…
A Was a source of eggs
B Had a colony of bunnies
C Was visited on Easter Sunday
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen came upon Rapa Nui on Easter Sunday in 1722. The name-lending encounter was less than peaceful. The Dutch crew mistook the Indigenous peoples’ curiosity for aggression and killed several of them. This foreshadowed decades of tragedy for the Rapa Nui: By the mid-19th century only about 100 of them remained.
The correct answer is Was visited on Easter Sunday.