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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 ...
The islands of the Caribbean were successively settled since at least around 5000 BC, long before European arrival in 1492. The Caribbean islands were dominated by two main cultural groups by the European contact period: the Taino and the Kalinago. Individual villages of other distinct cultural groups were also present on the larger islands.
Motunui is the location of the Motunui methanol plant, which was the largest in the world at the time of construction. [2] It was opened in 1986 to convert natural gas to methanol, then the methanol to synthetic petrol using a process developed by Mobil. The plant was one of the Think Big projects of the Third National Government.
The Kalinago, also called Island Caribs [5] or simply Caribs, are an Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. They may have been related to the Mainland Caribs (Kalina) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language known as Kalinago or Island Carib. They also spoke a pidgin language associated with the Mainland Caribs ...
[4] [5] Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed even today by names of places in the New World; for example localities or rivers called Guamá are found in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Guamá was the name of famous Taíno who fought the Spanish ...
The setting on a fictional island in the central Pacific Ocean drew inspiration from elements of the real-life island nations of Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga. [ 9 ] Taika Waititi wrote the initial screenplay, [ 10 ] but went home to New Zealand in 2012 to focus on his newborn first child and What We Do in the Shadows (2014). [ 11 ]
Caribbean people; Total population; c. 45–47 million: Regions with significant populations Colombia: 12 million Cuba: 11 million Haiti: 11 million Dominican Republic: 10 million Puerto Rico: 3.4 million Jamaica: 2.7 million Trinidad and Tobago: 1.3 million Guyana: 790 thousand Suriname: 633 thousand: Languages
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. Experts differ on when the island's Polynesian inhabitants first reached the island ...