Interesting Facts About Easter Island Easter Island is a remote, inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. It is famous for the hundreds of giant stone heads that dot the landscape. For centuries, historians, geologists, archaeologists and scientists have been fascinated by these statues. If the moai...
Easter IslandmoaiSculptures cut from volcanic rock, Easter Island. island, Chile Ask the Chatbot a Question More Actions Print Cite Share Feedback External Websites Also known as: Rapa Nui Written by Thor Heyerdahl Explorer, anthropologist, writer, and lecturer. Organizer and leader of Norwegian Ar...
Easter Island Statues Easter Island’s most famous features are its enormous stone statues calledmoai,at least 288 of which once stood upon massive stone platforms calledahu.There are some 250 of theseahuplatforms spaced approximately one half mile apart to create an almost unbroken line around the...
Interesting Easter Island Facts: It is believed that the statues on Easter Island were created by the people of Rapa Nui sometime between 1250 CE and 1500 CE. At one time it appeared that the statues consisted only of heads, but further digging by archaeologists revealed that there are also...
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...
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The Easter Island Heads May Have More to Tell Us Photo: myeviajes Pixabay CC0 1.0 You've no doubt heard of the Easter Island Heads and the mysteries surrounding them and the civilization that built them. These massive stone statues were built and moved by mysterious means, and the civilizati...
复活节岛是世界上最着名但访问量最少的考古遗址之一。 复活节岛是一个小型,丘陵和无树木的火山岛屿。 它位于太平洋,距离拥有该岛的智利国家海岸约2200英里(3600公里)。 复活节岛的面积为63平方英里,有三座死火山,最高的是升至1674脚。 从技术上讲,这个岛屿是一个巨大的火山,距离太平洋海底一万多英尺。
Easter Island 'heads' on the slope of Rano Raraku volcano. (Image credit: Image via Shutterstock) The marijuana plant isn't used only for smoking; its fibers can also be made into rope or fabric. Perhaps the oddest use of hemp rope on record is as a method for transporting giant stone...