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The largest of the moai weigh up to 86 tons and can be as much as 30 feet tall although the average size is about half.
Map easter island statues. Easter island rapa nui. Isla de pascua is a chilean island in the southeastern pacific ocean at the southeasternmost point of the polynesian triangle in oceania. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1000 extant monumental statues called moai created by the early rapa nui people.
Though moai are whole body statues they are often referred to as easter island heads in some popular literature. This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads and partly because many of the iconic images for the island showing upright moai are the statues on the slopes of rano raraku many of which are buried to their shoulders. Easter island is one of the worlds most isolated inhabited islands.
It is 3600 km to the west of chile and 2075 km east of pitcairn. The total area of easter island is 1636 square kilometres or 631 square miles. Rapa nui islanders from left to right face tatoos of tepano 1890.
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 predominantly of polynesian descent.
Rapa nui or easter island as it is known today is a polynesian island positioned in the pacific ocean approximately 3510 km 2180 mi west of continental chile. Easter island is one of the worlds most isolated inhabited islands with its nearest inhabited neighbor pitcairn island located. Easter island is home to 887 monolithic carvings called moai statues.
The moai were built by the rapa nui who were native to the island somewhere between the years 1400 1650.
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