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Bookmark or Share- Easter Island | Map, Statues, Heads, History, Moai, & Facts | BritannicaEaster Island, Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world and is famous for its giant stone statues. To its original inhabitants the island is known as Rapa Nui, and its population is predominantly of Polynesian descent.
- What Really Happened on Easter Island? | Columbia MagazineA millennium ago, a brave group of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world’s most isolated places — a small, previously uninhabited island they named Rapa Nui. There they erected hundreds of “moai,” or gigantic stone statues of ancestral spirits, to protect them.
- Ancient DNA adds to evidence debunking theory of Easter Island collapse ...Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific...
- Easter Island ‑ Statues, Head & Chile - HISTORYKnown as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Paaseiland, or Easter Island, by Dutch explorers in honor of the day of their arrival in 1722. It was annexed by Chile in ...
- Easter Island - WikipediaEaster Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i]) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
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