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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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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.
What wildlife is there on Easter Island?
According to what I've read no mammals existed on the the island until Westerners brought horses, dogs and such. Most of the wildlife that exists on the island that isn't a feral version of a species introduced by Europeans is of the seabird or insect variety. Like many other Polynesian islands, feral cats and rats and pretty much apex predators who have the run of the place.
What ocean is Easter Island Located?
Easter Island is located in the Pacific Ocean. It is approximately 2300 miles off the coast of Chile. Easter Island is known for the over 800 Moai statues, which can be found throughout the island.
What rock are the Moai statues of Easter Island made of?
Scientists are still trying to figure that out today. They say probably they were built to represent power or life. Or maybe built for praise and majority, maybe just to be content in living. But they still don't know.
Easter Island is 176 square kilometers and does not have many trees. It has many caves with scorpions and many other deadly animals. It has about 880 statues and currently in 2011 has a population of 3000.
Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island in 1722
Natives from the Marquesas Islands were the first to discover Easter Island. In regards to the Europeans, the Dutch were the first to discover Easter Island. A Dutch explorer named Jacob Roggeveen found it.
Where did Easter Island get its name?
Easter Island is, supposedly, named such because a Dutch explorer discovered it on Easter Sunday in 1722. well at least that's what other people have answered with to similar questions on here.
Hope that helps!
What did the archaeologist discover about early man's ability at Stonehenge and Easter Island?
Stonehenge and Easter Island have enormous boulders that have been moved great distances. It took a lot of engineering to accomplish those feats.
Shape and also transport (sometimes over considerable distances) large pieces of stone which they then managed to erect in their chosen location. It is a remarkable example of man moving large intact objects, carve things, and have an understanding of the relationship of the Sun to the seasons and calendar.
They planned and built complex structures, placed large statues and figured out ways to lift things in a time when man had no machines to help them do this. It is a mystery today how they built Stonehenge, and got the Statues on Easter Island.
What is the language and currency of Easter Island?
The common languages of Easter Island are Spanish and Rapa Nui.
quite a bit of spanish some rapanui
The language of Easter Island is Spanish (Español)
Spanish is the main language. Some people still speak Rapa Nui, but that language is endangered.
The discovery that very large and heavy stones at Stonehenge and that very large and heavy Moai heads at Easter Island had been moved great distances are viewed as remarkable. These examples of early mans' ability to transport large and heavy pieces of stone over considerable distances, and the ability to erect these same stones in their chosen location, using only primitive tools allegedly would prevent serious problems today, even for people equipped with heavy machinery.
How did the statues on Easter Island get there?
- How were the statues moved?
- A Dutch drawing from 1728, right, seems to show natives moving an Easter Island statue in an upright position. Although it is unclear in this image whether what is being depicted is moving or erecting, Thor Heyerdahl was told by village elders that the statues walked from the quarry to the ahu. While this seems fanciful some have considered that it meant the statues where moved in an upright position.
- Several experiments were carried out and although it was proven that the statues could have been moved by rocking and rolling their bases similar to the way we would move a refrigerator or large piece of furniture, the method would have caused so much damage to the base of the statue that it would seem an unlikely method except when the statue was at the end of its journey and ready for final positioning.
How long would it take to fly from Easter Island to Chile?
The air distance from Santiago, Chile, to Easter Island is 2,340 miles. That equals 3,765 kilometers or 2,033 nautical miles.
Where is the moai statues located at?
Moai are from Easter Island which is more than 2,000 miles west of Chile.
What kind of trees grow on Easter Island?
All most all of the plants on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) are exotics, introduced. They have been brought for food, horticulture, landscape and by accident. I am in the process of producing a current species list and other papers on the plant life here on the island. Some of the plants there are very exotic. Most of them are very rare. Rare plants are plants that you don't see very often.
How many statues on Easter Island?
The Easter Island head statues (moai) are carved from volcanic rock from Rano Raraku. These rocks include trachyte, red scoria, and basalt (all of these are igneous rocks because they came from a volcano). The eyes are made of black and white obsidian rocks.
Easter Saturday is the Saturday after Easter Sunday. It is not, as many people think, the Saturday before Easter Sunday. That is Holy Saturday. It may be Holy Saturday that you are asking about though. Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath, so no work could be done. So very little and nothing of significance happened on Holy Saturday. As it was a day of rest, that's why there was such a rush to get the body of Jesus entombed before sunset on Friday and why Jesus lay in the tomb on Holy Saturday, waiting until Sunday to rise and why the ladies didn't go to prepare the body of Jesus until the first day of the week, which is Sunday. They found he had risen and much later Christians adopted Sunday as their Sabbath in honour of the Resurrection.
