Easter Island is one of the most unusual places on the planet. In A Green History of the World Clive Ponting notes‚ “Easter Island is one of the most remote‚ inhabited places on earth. Only some 150 square miles in area‚ it lies in the Pacific Ocean‚ 2‚000 miles off the west coast of South America and 1‚250 miles from the nearest inhabitable land of Pitcairn Island‚” (Ponting‚ 1991). The extreme isolation of Easter Island or Rapa Nui is not the islands most distinguishing feature. The most interesting
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Summary In the article‚ “Who Killed Easter Island” by Jared Diamond he states that people can affect and destroy our environment and natural resources. Easter Island can be used as a warning that cultural and environmental dangers exist due to overexploitation. Although‚ civilizations have vanished from the island it still has a remaining mystery and history to its untouched landscape. Easter Island was formed out of an ancient volcanic eruption; the island is only sixty-four square miles with habitable
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Easter Island. The Easter Island heads‚ man made or created by something out of this world? Don’t know? Well I’m here to tell you. In this paper I’m going to talk about 3 things‚ Origins of Easter Island‚ The Mysteries of Easter Island‚ and The Stone Statues. Easter Island is located 2‚300 miles off the coast of Chile‚ it’s approximately 64 square miles. It is currently a territory of Chile‚ it is located in South America. The Island was discovered by a Dutch Admiral named‚ Jacob Roggeveen on
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these boats was the totoro‚ a fresh-water reed found at Lake Titicaca‚ Peru‚ and which the Easter Islanders planted down in the marshy recesses of their extinct volcanoes.” So although there was recent thought the Easter Islanders were totally stranded after all the trees were gone‚ maybe not. Heyerdahl also cites plants as a tie between South America and the Islands. “The most important plant on Easter Island when Roggeveen and Captain
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Lesson of Easter Island Cawonnas B EG-481 December 16‚ 2012 Mr. Simon The Lesson of Easter Island Bill Gaede once said‚ “Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining (Goodreads‚ 2012).” This paper will convey an explanation‚ based on scientific method‚ on how the people of Easter Island shattered their island leaving only a small percentage of people to live there. Easter Island is remotely located in the Pacific Ocean. The island is about
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Easter Island is about 2‚000 miles from any population center. So why should you come here? The views are so beautiful. There are many mysteries to be solved about Easter Island. Easter Island is located around the South Pacific Ocean. Easter Island has a very interesting and intriguing history to many people. It is a small and isolated island in the South Pacific Ocean. It is about sixty-three square miles. The nearest place that has a population is Chile‚ which is more than 2‚300 miles
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INTRO Easter island also known as Rapa Nui‚ is located 4300 miles southeaste of Hawaii and covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean. Scientists have discovered evidence that Râpa nui was first settled by polynésien fishermen. They had the disadvantage of living in one of the most fragile environment‚ at the highest risk of deforestation. Witch ment it wasn’t a very sastainable environment. The polynésiens came from the Asia tiwon aria and accsedently got to the island then they planed
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In my opinion‚ the Easter Islanders used the trees for numerous daily necessities such as building materials for houses‚ to build canoes‚ clothing‚ and logs to move their massive statues. The Easter Islanders used the trees at an unsustainable rate‚ depleting their resource. Depleting the tree resource became more problematic for the Easter Islanders‚ because it led other agricultural resources to decline as well. As their resources declined‚ it brought violence and warfare to the civilization.
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Jaskaran Sandhu Mrs. Sproul APES 3B September 17‚ 2014 Easter Island and the Lorax Essay From the time when industrialization‚ technology developed human population began to destroy the nature for their benefits in trades‚ construction‚ supplies etc… Some examples of that idea includes the fictional environmental video “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss of 1972 and the real story of “Easter’s End” both have a similar background. The article “Easter Island’s End” shows how nature can get destroyed by human’s
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Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean near South America‚ suffered the Tragedy of the Commons‚ which caused the natives of Easter Island to go extinct. The tragedy of the commons is what happens when people don’t communicate and are not conservative of their resources. The islanders cut down all of their trees‚ resulting in the loss of many resources. According to Ralph Faggotter‚ when the people arrived‚ there were large forests and palm trees‚ along with many species of birds and seals.
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