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On Monday, Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano erupted, causing a wildfire that swept through the Rano Raraku area and damaged the island's iconic stone heads. Rano Raraku is also known as the ...
An unspecified number of Easter Island heads were scorched and irreparably damaged by the fire, officials said in another news release. Some damage is clearly visible on the statues, but officials ...
STORY: A fire on Chile's Easter Island has caused irreparable damage to its iconic statues.The blaze swept through Rapa Nui National Park earlier this week.It caused several of the statues' stones ...
The statue was a gift from the people of Nii-jima (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining "moai" and the dialectal Japanese word moyai ( 催合い ) 'helping each other' .
Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.
They are inspired by moai, megalithic statues built by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island. The statues are made from kōgaseki (抗火石, lit. ' anti-fire stone '), a special type of pumice mined only in Niijima and on the Italian island of Lipari. [1] [2] Because of its lightness and porosity, one can easily carve it using only a chisel.
Some of Easter Island’s megalithic statues have been damaged by a fire and will likely turn into sand, according to the mayor of the remote island.
Hoa Hakananai'a is a moai, a statue from Easter Island. It was taken from Orongo , Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a British ship and is now in the British Museum in London. It has been described as a "masterpiece" [ 1 ] and among the finest examples of Easter Island sculpture. [ 2 ]