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Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, Easter Island (also called Rapa Nui), located in the mid- Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the Rapa Nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts, [1 ...
Map of the location of ꞌOrongo on Easter Island. Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It consists of a collection of low, sod-covered, windowless, round-walled buildings with even lower doors positioned on the high south-westerly tip of the large volcanic caldera called Rano Kau.
Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s. Moai or moʻai (/ ˈmoʊ.aɪ / ⓘ MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. [1][2 ...
The island being E.B.'s home, to our knowledge, is a modern-day addition to the mythology of the Easter Bunny, but chronologically speaking, it tracks: If the Easter Bunny, formerly exclusive to ...
1995 (19th Session) Area. 71.3 km 2 (27.5 sq mi) Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
Hanga Roa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈ (x)aŋɡa ˈro.a]; Rapa Nui: Haŋa Roa, Rapa Nui pronunciation: [ˈha.ŋa ˈɾo.a]) (Rapanui language: Long bay) is the main town, harbour and seat of Easter Island, a municipality of Chile. [1] It is located in the southern part of the island's west coast, in the lowlands between the extinct volcanoes of ...
Tahai. The Tahai Ceremonial Complex is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui ( Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia. Restored in 1974 by American archaeologist William Mulloy, Tahai comprises three principal ahu from north to south: Ko Te Riku (with restored eyes), Tahai, and Vai Ure. Visible in the distance from Tahai are two restored ahu at Hanga ...
A horizontal bicolor of red and white with the blue square ended on the upper hoist-side corner of the red band bearing the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a cross, a miter and vertical red reimiros surrounding. [1] The flag of Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Te Reva Reimiro or Te Reva Rapa Nui) is the flag of Easter Island, a special territory of Chile.