Easter Island, Rapa Nui aged Facts and suppositions: Discovering the Points

Parry, Sheun

ISBN 10: 1912483424 / ISBN 13: 9781912483426

Published by Global Print Digital, 2017

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• Title: Easter Island, Rapa Nui aged Facts and suppositions: Discovering the Points
• Publisher: Global Print Digital
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912483424
• ISBN 13: 9781912483426
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Easter Island, Rapa Nui aged Facts and suppositions. Discovering the Points. Hundreds of years ago, a small group of Polynesians rowed their wooden outrigger canoes across vast stretches of open sea, navigating by the evening stars and the day's ocean swells. When and why these people left their native land remains a mystery. But what is clear is that they made a small, uninhabited island with rolling hills and a lush carpet of palm trees their new home, eventually naming their 63 square miles of paradise Rapa Nui now popularly known as Easter Island. On this outpost nearly 2,300 miles west of South America and 1,100 miles from the nearest island, the newcomers chiseled away at volcanic stone, carving moai, monolithic statues built to honor their ancestors. They moved the mammoth blocks of stone on average 13 feet tall and 14 tons to different ceremonial structures around the island, a feat that required several days and many men.