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Called Rapa Nui by its original inhabitants, it takes its English name from the day Europeans arrived: April 5, 1722โEaster Sunday. Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen reported a few thousand people living there at the time.
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Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, Easter Island (also called Rapa Nui), located in the mid- Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated.
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Easter Island is a place of imagination, wonder, and mystery. With over 800 megalith statues scattered all over the island, you'll find yourself drawn to the stories and legends of why they were built, how they got there, and why it suddenly stopped. As you start planning your trip, you'll want to know how travel to this remote island works.
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See why. (April 2022) Easter Island ( Spanish: Isla de Pascua [หisla รฐe หpas.kwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
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Easter Island is famous for its stone statues of human figures, known as moai (meaning "statue"). The island is known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui. The moai were probably carved to commemorate important ancestors and were made from around 1000 C.E. until the second half of the seventeenth century. Over a few hundred years the inhabitants of this remote island quarried, carved and erected.
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Ahu Tongariki. Ahu Tongariki, which can be viewed from the hill sides of nearby Rano Raraku, is one of the most popular sites on Easter Island. The largest ahu on the island, you'll find a row of 15 stone giants towering along the horizon including the largest one erected on the island which weighs a whopping 86 tons!
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Phases of Island Culture Archaeological excavations of Easter Island suggest three distinct cultural phases: the early period (700-850 A.D.), the middle period (1050-1680) and the late period.
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Easter Island, situated in the southeast Pacific over 1,000 miles from the other islands of Eastern Polynesia and some 1,400 miles west of South America, is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
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For many travelers, one of the greatest mysteries is how to even begin planning a trip to this remote island 2,100 miles from continental Chile. Easter Island โ called only by its native name, Rapa Nui, on the island โ was never fully abandoned. Thousands of Rapa Nui people continue to live there to this day.
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Easter Island Easter Island, Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world.
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Projected snowfall totals for a massive Nor'easter that is now nearing the region have just increased. Areas in the darkest shade of blue in the first image above from AccuWeather.com could see.
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Robert Krulwich/NPR And yet, puzzlingly, these same people had managed to carve enormous statues โ almost a thousand of them, with giant, hollow-eyed, gaunt faces, some weighing 75 tons. The.
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Easter Island's iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing "irreparable" damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui's sacred moai. Here's.
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Drought Outlook. The January 2024 drought outlook for the contiguous United States (view Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico). Yellow areas are likely to see drought develop. Brown areas are likely to see drought persist. Tan means drought is likely to improve at least 1 category, and green means drought is likely to end.
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Easter Island is home to Bortle 1 skies, which are some of the the darkest skies you will find. Because the island is so compact, you can easily access these skies making this one of the best places for stargazing in the world. Also, if you love astrophotography, you will have a field day out here (aside from the lack of access to sites).
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The Easter Island heads are known as Moai by the Rapa Nui people who carved the figures in the tropical South Pacific directly west of Chile. The Moai monoliths, carved from stone found on the.