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Motu Nui (large island in the Rapa Nui language) is the largest of three islets just south of Easter Island and is the westernmost place in Chile. All three islets have seabirds, but Motu Nui was also an essential location for the Tangata manu ("Bird Man") cult which was the island religion between the moai era and the Christian era (the people ...
Motunui (large island in Māori, from Motu Nui [1]) is a settlement in northern Taranaki, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 3 close to the shore of the North Taranaki Bight , six kilometres east of Waitara .
Outside the triangle, there are traces of Polynesian settlement as far north as Necker Island (Mokumanamana), as far east as Salas y Gómez Island (Motu Motiro Hiva), and as far south as Enderby Island . Also, there have once been Polynesian settlements on Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands . By the time the Europeans first arrived, these ...
Motu Nui, with the smaller Motu Iti and the sea stack of Motu Kao Kao. Picture taken September 2018, from Orongo on the Rano Kau volcano, around 250 meters (820 feet) above sea level. Motu Iti , or Little island in the Rapa Nui language , is a small uninhabited islet near Motu Nui , about a mile from Rano Kau on the south western corner of ...
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.
The Rapa Nui name for the island is Motu Motiro Hiva or Manu Motu Motiro Hiva, meaning "(Bird's) Islet on the way to Hiva". Hiva is part of the names of several Polynesian islands, particularly in the Marquesas Islands. In the Rapa Nui language, however, it means "far off lands" and is the name for the mythical original homeland of the Polynesians.
The Tangata manu ("bird-man," from tangata "human beings" + manu "bird") was the winner of a traditional ritual competition on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to collect the first sooty tern egg of the season from the nearby islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui, and climb the sea cliffs of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.
Motu Iti (Rapa Nui), a small islet near Easter Island Motu Iti (Society Islands) , or Tupai, a small island in the Leeward Society Islands Motuiti or Kennedy Island, a phantom island reported in the New Hebrides at 11°17′S 167°58′E / 11.283°S 167.967°E / -11.283; 167.967 or 8°35′S 167°48′E / 8.583°S 167.800°E ...