Easter Island
 
 
The Moai statues
 
 
Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Islan
 
 

Easter Island

Easter Island 

Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai (pronounced /?mo?.a?/), created by the [...]

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The Moai statues

The Moai statues 

The Moai statues are unique stone statues. They are human figures and are high is up to 9-11 meters. There are around 900 of them. It is unknown why and how the moai statues are being set up, but the way the statues looks talks that their production has being stopped immediatelly. Rapa Nui or [...]

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Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Islan

Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Islan 

Moai, or mo‘ai (pronounced /?mo?.a?/), are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500.[1] Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island’s perimeter. Almost all [...]

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