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Easter Island is a dependency of Chile. It is famous for its giant stone statues. To its original inhabitants the island is known as Rapa Nui (“Great Rapa”) or Te Pito te Henua (“Navel of the World”). The first European visitors were the Dutch, who named it Paaseiland (“Easter Island”) in memory of their own day of arrival.
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The name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (5 April), 1722, while searching for "Davis Land". Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (18th-century Dutch for "Easter Island"). The island's official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, also means "East...
Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. Its closest inhabited neighbour is Pitcairn Island, 1,931 km (1,200 mi) to the west, with approximately 50 inhabitants. The nearest continental point lies in central Chile near Concepción, at 3,512 kilometres (2,182 mi). Easter Island's latitude is similar to that of Caldera, Chil...
The climate of Easter Island is subtropicalmaritime. The lowest temperatures are in July and August (18 °C) and the highest in February (maximum temperature 28 °C), the summer season in the southern hemisphere. Winters are quite mild. The rainiest month is April, though the island has year-round rainfall.
Easter Island, together with its closest neighbour, the tiny island of Isla Salas y Gómez 415 km (258 mi) farther east, is recognized by ecologists as a distinct ecoregion, the Rapa Nui subtropical broadleaf forests. The original subtropical moist broadleaf forests are now gone, but paleobotanical studies of fossil pollen, tree moulds left by lava ...
Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island have ranged from 300 to 1200 CE, though the current best estimate for colonization is in the AD/CE. Easter Island colonization likely coincided with the arrival of the first settlers in Hawaii. Rectifications in radiocarbon dating have changed almost all of the previously posited early settleme...
The most important mythsare: 1. Tangata manu, the Birdman cult which was practiced until the 1860s. 2. Makemake, is an important god. 3. Aku-aku, the guardians of the sacred family caves. 4. Moai-kava-kava a ghost man of the Hanau epe (long-ears.)
Easter Island is one of the world's remotest inhabited islands.Along with Juan Fernández Islandsit has the constitutional status of "special territory" of Chile, granted in 2007.In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site.Souvenir Moai from Rapa Nui, bought at the Artisan's Market, 2020Typical landscape on Easter Island; rounded extinct volcanoes covered in low vegetation.Bird paintings in the cave called "Cave of the Men Eaters"Satellite view of Easter Island 2019. The Poike peninsula is on the right.History of Easter Island for Kids | Bedtime History. 80. Learn about Easter Island, its discovery, and the history of people who lived there along with the giant carved heads, the...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Easter Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean, is home to an array of almost 900 giant stone figures that date back many centuries.
Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, is a Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean. The island became a special territory of Chile in 1888. Easter Island is famous for having 887 massive statues, called moai, which were sculpted and erected by the early Rapa Nui people.
Introduction. In the spring of 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. Upon arrival, they found a most puzzling and fascinating sight – hundreds of massive stone statues were all over this tiny island. What are they? What do they mean? Why are they placed where they are? How did they get there?
