Easter Island is a small, hilly and treeless island of volcanic origin. It is located in the Pacific Ocean approximately 2200 miles (3600 kilometers) off the coast of the country of Chile, which owns the island. Easter Island is sixty-three square miles in size and has three extinct volca...
Easter Island Facts Easter Island is an island located in the Pacific Ocean's southeastern region, most famous for the almost 1,000 statues created by the Rapa Nui people. It is a Chilean island, after having been annexed by Chile in 1888. The island was given its name by the first know...
Easter Island has been synonymous with the huge, spectacular stone mololiths, known as Moais, which once dotted its landscape. Located over 2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile), it is one of the most isolated places on Earth. In the 1860s, Tahitian sailors ...
Learn through an animation about the formation of the volcanic island chains like Hawaii and SamoaA computer visualization of the process by which volcanic island chains are formed. Great plumes of super-hot rock, flowing upward from Earth's mantle, have created Hawaii, Samoa, and similar island...
Easter Island Statues are called Moais 15. There are about 900 statues and over 300 ceremonial platforms all over the Easter Island. 16. The Loa River is the longest river in Chile. Its source is located in the Andean mountains. Chile's longest river has a length of 440 km/ 270 miles...
6. The Moai Statues of Easter Island The Moai statues of Easter Island are a collection of nearly 1,000 stone statues that were carved by the Rapa Nui people between the 13th and 16th centuries. The statues, which stand up to 10 meters tall and can weigh up to 80 tons, were made to...
Easter 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 pre
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Easter Island—Isla de Pascua, in Spanish, or Rapa Nui, in Polynesian—is the best known of Chile’s Pacific Islands. It lies 2,300 miles (3,700 km) off the coast. Originally called Te Pito O Te Henua (Navel of the World) by the first Polynesian settlers over 1,500 years ago, Ea...
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