Easter Island
About Easter Island
Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. Easter Island is also the only territory in Polynesia where Spanish is an official language.
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One theory is that the Easter Island statues were walked into position, with a rope around them, strolled along like you would move a heavy fridge.
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More facts about Easter Island
Easter Island had been so deforested that they couldn't make canoes to go and fish, so they ran out of food and knocked down the statues in anger.
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Erich von Daniken reckoned a race of superior intelligent creatures got shipwrecked on Easter Island and taught the locals.
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