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A
mazing Easter Island known in spanish as Isla de Puscua, is a Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean closest to
Chile
in South America. The island is in fact a special territory of Chile. It is a world heritage site with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park. Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world.
This Island is most famous for its monumental statues, called
moai
, created by the Rapanui people. The large stone statues, or
moai
, for which Easter Island is world-famous, were carved during a relatively short and intense period of time. A total of 887 monolithic stone statues have been counted on the island and in museums. It is estimated that these statues were created from 400 CE to 15001700 CE. About 95% of these moais were
carved
out of the easily worked volcanic ash or tuff found at a single site inside the extinct volcano Rano Raraku. The native islanders who carved them used only stone hand chisels.
The nameing of this place "Easter Island" was originated by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who came upon it on Easter Sunday 1722. The current Polynesian name of the island, "Rapa Nui" or "Big Rapa", was coined by labor immigrants from Rapa in the Bass Islands There are three
Rano
(freshwater crater lakes), at Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but no permanent streams or rivers.
The climate of this island is subtropical marine. The lowest temperatures are found in the winter months of July and August (64° Fahrenheit) and the highest temperatures in February. The island has year round rain. It consists of three extinct volcanoes and is rich in iron and has a similarity to the igneous rocks that consist of the
Galapagos Islands
.
Today it is relativly easily accessed from Santiago Chile via
Lan Chile
airlines. The magic and beauty one finds in this remote land leaves one with an unforgetable impresion of mystery and intrigue. I think it is one of the power spots on this planet that brings forth more than can be physicly seen. Perhaps if
UFO
's really exist, one imagines this as a stopping place for them.
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