Easter Island or Rapa Nui or Spanish
Isla De Pascua is a island in the South eastern Pacific Ocean. The island is
very famous for its 887 unique Moai statues created by the early Rapa Nui
people.
Since 1995 UNESCO named the island a
World heritage site, most of the island is protected within Rapa Nui National
Park. Polynesian people settled on Easter Island in the first Millennium AD and
build amazing culture, as evidenced by the
Moai statues and other artefacts. However the good life led to overpopulation and so to
gradual deforestation and extinction of natural resources, which then led to
demise of the Rapa Nui civilization.
So by 1722 when the first Europeans
arrived the population of the island had dropped to 2000 , 3000 from
approximately 15000 just a century earlier.
The island should be an example to the
modern world as warning of the cultural and environmental dangers of
exploitation.
All the diseases carried by the
European sailors and Peruvian slave riding of 1860 further reduced the
population to 100 in 1877. Easter island is a special territory of Chile that
was annexed in 1888. The amazing statues which are all around the Island are
just gorgeous to look at.
The are different sizes the biggest
one is never completed but is under construction its huge it weigh 85tons. The
biggest completed one is sixty tons. Still is a big mystery how such a remote
nation so long ago created all these amazing statues and moved them around the
island.
There are different rumours some say
that thy are been placed there by aliens or by gods hmm now one knows for sure
there are only different theories.
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