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What Happened on Easter Island: A New Scenario
“What Happened On Easter Island- A New Scenario” Summary Easter Island is about 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located around 2,300 miles from Chile’s West Coast and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Paaseiland, or Easter Island, by the Dutch explorers in honor of the day of their arrival in 1722. It was discovered by the people of Chile in the late 19th century and now maintains its financial system by tourist Easter Island’s most significant claim to fame is a large amount of almost 900 giant stone figures that date back many centuries. The statues reveal their creators to be master craftsmen and engineers, and are distinctive among other stone sculptures found in Polynesian cultures. The stones weight almost 75 tons. There has been much speculation about the exact purpose of the statues, the role they played in the ancient civilization of Easter Island and the way they may have been constructed and transported. In ideas they believe the people of the island worshiped the statues as a resource or religion. Everybody who tells this story sees it in a different perception but if you asked Captain Cook he think he will know the answer.
“What Happened On Easter Island- A New Scenario” Summary Easter Island is about 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located around 2,300 miles from Chile’s West Coast and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Paaseiland, or Easter Island, by the Dutch explorers in honor of the day of their arrival in 1722. It was discovered by the people of Chile in the late 19th century and now maintains its financial system by tourist Easter Island’s most significant claim to fame is a large amount of almost 900 giant stone figures that date back many centuries.

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