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Easter Island
Easter Island is a Polynesian Island located in the Pacific Ocean. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the majority of the the island is covered by a national park. Easter Island is well known for its stonework, including carvings, homes, and moai (the large carved heads found around the island).
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What ocean is Easter Island in?
Easter Island is in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, also known as the South Pacific Ocean.
What happened to the people on Easter Island?
The population rose so high that they ran out of natural resources and good land to farm on. They were forced into cannibals and consumed the weak and elderly. There was a short war and most of the people left had gone insane from ergot poisoning.
The reason there are no bodies today is that the rats ate the remaining bodies. Even the teeth had eroded away as the island was pelted with salty winds. Eroding the topsoil into the ocean. Nothing had time to fossilize or bury cause of the fierce wet ocean winds.
The statues were built in the beginning in hopes of being rescued or saved from a passing ship.
The people of Easter Island were most likely expelled from their native land for some reason.
What is the capital of Easter Island?
i don't think there is any citys in Easter island but isn't Easter island cool i also love the actress Kristen Stewart
Jakata is located on what island?
Jakarta is located in the islands of java. Indonesia's capital is Jakarta and the group of islands form the java.
What is the closest landmass to Easter island?
Easter Island is entirely surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Easter Island is over 1,200 miles from the nearest inhabited land.
Differernces between Easter Island and New Zealand?
New Zealand Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand and Cook islands Maori are the indigenous people of the Cook Islands
How old are the statues of Easter Island?
The most widely-accepted theory is that the statues were carved by the Polynesian colonizers of the island beginning by about A.D. 1000-1100.
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Whats the history of Easter Island head?
The moai of Rapanui are fascinating statues, most of which would be difficult if not impossible to move from their quarry with today's construction equipment. Their true history remains disputed today because their is no written and very little oral history about them (many islanders were taken into slavery). Also there is an ancient language that was on several tablets they found on this island. It has yet to been translated because no person now a days knows what this means and there are no ancestors that can translate so that is one of the most intriuging parts about it.
Where did the Easter Island statues come from?
The statues are from Easter Island. They are called Moai and are carved from a rock made of compressed volanic ash known as Tuff. They were carved in the quarries of Rano Raraku along the coast and transported to various areas across the Island.
The Easter island Moai (monolithic human figures) are made of rock
What were the Easter Island Moai used for?
Moai are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. Representing deceased ancestors, the Moai may also have been regarded as the embodiment of powerful living or former chiefs and important lineage status symbols. The most widely-accepted theory is that the statues were carved by the Polynesian colonizers of the island beginning by about A.D. 1000-1100.
What is the difference between Stonehenge and Easter Island?
Easter Island has over 800 statues that were hand carved by the natives around 1100 to 1680 CE. The statues were made to represent a deceased loved one. Stonehenge is a ring of stones that were raided around 2300 BC. Stonehenge is believed to be a place for healing or for astronomical observation.
What Natural Resources does Easter Island have?
The natural resources are copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, and molybdenum.
