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Nov 9, 2009 · Print Page. Easter Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean, is home to an array of almost 900 giant stone figures that date back many centuries. The statues reveal their creators to be...
Mar 9, 2023, 7:18 AM PST. A statue on Easter Island. David Slotnick/Business Insider. Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The...
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History of Science of Easter Island. Easter Island's long isolation was ended on Easter Sunday, 1722, when a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, discovered the island. He named it for the Holy day. The Dutch were amazed by the great statues, which they thought were made from clay.
Jul 28, 2013 · 15 Stunning Photos from Easter Island. Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, boasts stupendous nature and enigmatic stone statues. By Chaney Kwak. July 28, 2013. Chaney Kwak. Dawn breaks over Ahu...
Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who first spied it on Easter Day 1722, this tiny spit of volcanic rock in the vast South Seas is, even today, the most remote...
Nov 24, 2020 · History of Easter Island. ‘Discovered’ by Dutch explorers in 1722, Easter Island – so named because the explorers landed on Easter Sunday – is thought to have been inhabited since 700AD and perhaps even as early as the fourth century AD. This is still disputed, as is the origin of the people of Easter Island.
Jun 13, 2018 · Moai. Rapanui artisans carved the giant statues, called moai, centuries ago from volcanic rock at a quarry a mile away. By the 19th century all of Easter's moai had been toppled—by whom or what...
