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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 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.

How big is Easter Island?

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.

Who discovered Easter Island?

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!

How many moai rae there on Easter Island?

There are one hundred twenty nine moai on Easter Island.

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 archeeological discoveries at Stonehenge and Easter Island mainly as remarkable examples of early mans ability to?

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.

What happend on Easter?

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.

What is the longutide and latitude of Easter Island?

Numbers vary by a few minutes from one source to the next mainly depending on what specific part of the island you are measuring from. These are the coordinates for Hanga Roa the capital of Easter Island a.k.a Rapa Nui and they are the official Latitude and Longitude:

27 degrees 05' South Latitude

109 degrees 20' West Longitude.

Why probably did the Easter Island residents erect the moai monumental heads?

nobody knows but, it is said that there was 2 clans on Easter island, the long eared people, the small eared people. the long eared people were the rulers. they commanded the small eared people, to build huge heads out of volcanic rock. then rock to the ocean and placed them so the faced into the center of the island so they could look into the tribe. it is also said that the Easter island heads have long ears because that's what the leaders had back in the day. i don't think this answers your question but i hope it helps

Do people on Easter Island make statues anymore?

Yes they are, due to global warming the spirits inside them will die so they are being moved to the north pole where the will survive and make little baby easter island statues by having sex.

Another theory is that aliens want to take them back to their home planet as leonardo da vinci said is he paper he published yesterday.

What large monuments is Easter Island famous for?

its flowers, but they also have some very cool stones that were knockd over by a cyclone that got fixed by d japs.