Ben--Easter+Island

Ben Lee note Easter island is one of the loneliest islands in the world./ Far out in the south pacific ocean, about 2,350 miles./ Scattered over this volcanic island of more than 60 square miles are more than 600 huge statues called moai, each carved from a single block of soft stone./ Easter island treeless land, scale is perhaps the most crucial piece of mystery evidence on which diamond has based his theory of ecocide./Its nearest in habited neighbor is Pitcairn island, 1,300 miles away./Some statues areg more than 30 feet high./Compared to other tree species that survived into the early 20th century./Scientists disagree over which forces brought about deforestation and the degree importance that philla trees may have played in Rapa Nui’s culture./Rapa Nui has been devoid of large trees for avoid some times./The inhabitants of Easter island, of mostly Polynesian descent, are survivors of a people who were once skilled wonders in stone and wood./ and had a form of writing different from any other known./The island, called Rapa Nui by the inhabitants, was probably, cognized between AD400 aw sog by eastern Polynesian emigrant./That culture’s most famous features are its enormous stone statues called moai at least 288 of which ene stood upon massive stone platforms called ahu./One of the world’s most famous yet least visited archeological sites, Easter island is a small, hilly now treeless island of volcanic origin./The large stone statues or moai, for which Easter island is world famous./The moai and ahu were in use as early as AD500 the majority were carved and erected between AD1000 and 1650, and they were still standing when Jacob Roggveen visited the island in 1772./Mystery surround the purpose of the ahu plats forms and moai statues but even more perplexing mysteries have began to surface from the research of scholars out side the boundaries of conventional archeology./Easter island has probably been the subject or more hyperbole and speculation in proportion to its size than any other history place on earth./Rapa Nui is the most isolated place of inhabited land into work./In the b???years of the 20century and the first years of the 21st century various writers and scientist have advanced theories renting the vary deliver of./Easter island’s magnificent civilization around the time of the first European contact./The history of island is rich and ????./The climate of Easter island is subtropical maritime./The Dutch explorer Jacob Rogeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1772./The name “Easter island” was given by the island first recoded European visitor./In recent times the island has served as a cautionary tale about the cultural and environmental Danvers overexploitation./It is a world Heritage site with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui Park./Called Moai, Created by the early Rapa Nui people/a special territory of chille annexed in 1998, Easter island is widely famous of its 887 extant monumental statue./ Easter island is a Polynesian in the south eastern island pacific ocean, at the southern eastern most point of the Polynesian triangle./

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