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32 unusual facts about Easter island


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Easter Island presented by: Nick Lazaredes: Like many indigenous peoples in the Polynesian Triangle, from Aotearoa to Hawai'i, the Rapa Nui islanders are a minority on their islands and are fighting for their culture to be anything more than a synthetic dance-act for a tourist-hotel.

A. R. Penck

The sculptures are often reminiscent of the stone heads of Easter Island and other Oceanic art.

Basse-sur-le-Rupt

It is remarkable because if one looks closely at it, it is notable that it has four faces (like the statues on Easter Island.

Beyond Doubt

The short story is prefaced by an excerpt from an article about Professor J. Howard Erlenmeyer, who claims to have solved the mystery of the Easter Island statues, saying they were beyond doubt religious artifacts.

Blanche d'Alpuget

For fifteen years d'Alpuget abandoned her career as a writer and travelled the world with her new husband, visiting not only capital cities but remote areas of China, Inner Mongolia, Moldova, Easter Island, Palau, Kazakhstan, the North West Frontier of Pakistan and the Antarctic peninsula.

Chullpa

Very similar stone constructions on Easter Island known as tupa have sometimes been suspected to be closely related to chullpas.

Hubbert peak theory

Wood: The trees on Easter Island were a renewable resource but all were cut down in the 17th century, following the Hubbert bell curve, but could be restored.

Jennifer Vanderbes

Each of the novel's different plotlines is linked to Easter Island, the remote South Pacific island famed for its immense Moai (statues).

Leon Douglass

In 1932, at the invitation of the Smithsonian Institution, Douglass participated in a scientific expedition off Easter Island, where he filmed at depths up to 1,500 feet using his submarine cameras and also an underwater “flashlight” that he also patented.

Middelburg

Roggeveen discovered Easter Island/Rapa Nui in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1722.

Mortuary cult

A very obscure mortuary cult was fostered by the natives of the Easter Islands.

Nosepass and Probopass

Like its pre-evolution, Probopass is based on the moai stone heads of Easter Island, but Probopass now also has a red magnet "hat" top that resembles the pukao worn by some of the moai heads.

Nosepass appears as a rocky-but-animate figurine vaguely in the shape of an Easter Island statue and is found in Hoenn.

Oceanic art

Oceanic art or Oceanian art refers to the creative works made by the native peoples of the Pacific Islands and Australia, including areas as far apart as Hawaii and Easter Island.

Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui

Excited by the stories he knows about Easter Island, Mampato, a young boy with a belt device that allows time-travel, goes with his caveman friend Ogú to the ancient land of pre-columbian Rapa Nui.

Parodius! From Myth to Laughter

Moreover, there is a moai (Easter Island head statues) level, but all of the statues are given a much more animated look.

Pascua caudilinea

Pascua caudilinea, the Pascua goby, is a species of goby endemic to the waters around Easter Island.

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

Hoa Hakananai'a, a statue from Easter Island (Date unknown, but between 1200 and 1800 AD), later moved to Room 24

Rapa Nui Point

The feature is named descriptively from its resemblance to the moai figures of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile.

Red-tailed Tropicbird

The Red-tailed Tropicbird nests on oceanic islands in large colonies from the Hawaiian Islands to Easter Island and across to Mauritius and the Reunion Island.

Robinson Crusoe Island

There is no evidence of an earlier discovery either by Polynesians, despite the proximity to Easter Island, or by Native Americans.

Schoenoplectus californicus

This is famous for making up the floating islands on which the Uros people of Lake Titicaca dwell, as well as occurring on isolated Easter Island in the Pacific.

Seigi Choujin vs. Ancient Choujin

While Kinnikuman is on vacation with Mari-san's kindergarten class at Easter Island, the young wheelchair-bound Kouichi-kun laments being with an idiot like Kinnikuman, preferring to instead be with his favorite Seigi Choujin Buffaloman.

Shenzhou 2

It reentered over the western Pacific Ocean between Easter Island and Chile.

Sophora

The Toromiro (Sophora toromiro) was formerly a common tree in the forests of Easter Island.

Stegastes fasciolatus

Its range extends from East Africa to Australia and the Kermadec Islands including Hawaii, Easter Island and the Ryukyu Islands.

Stéphen Chauvet

Stéphen-Charles Chauvet (1885 – 1950), more commonly known as Dr Stéphen Chauvet, was the author of the first illustrated compendium of information about Easter Island, L'Île de Pâques et ses mystères, published in Paris in 1935.

Stonehenge II

In addition to the replica and real stones comprising the monument, there are also two fabricated Moai, or Easter Island (Rapa Nui/Isla de Pascua) statues located at the Hill Country Arts Foundation.

Svend Wiig Hansen

The gigantic group sculpture of Mennesket ved havet (Men at Sea, (1994) near Esbjerg is inspired by Cycladic art and the figures on Easter Island.

Syritta

Syritta flaviventris Macquart, 1842 – Africa, Europe, introduced to South and North America and Easter Island

Vastar

In some points of the game, it can be seen ruins of the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and the Rapa Nui (famous Easter Island's statues).

Yellowtail amberjack

Yellowtail populations have also been found in waters off South Africa, the Walter Shoals, Amsterdam Island, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Rapa, Pitcairn Island, Jeju Island, and Easter Island.


Culture of the Marquesas Islands

Much of Polynesia, including the original settlers of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rapa Iti and Easter Island, was settled by Marquesans, believed to have departed from the Marquesas as a result more frequently of overpopulation and drought-related food shortages, than because of the nearly constant warfare that eventually became a prominent feature of the islands' culture.

Languages of Papua New Guinea

The Austronesian languages are widely spread across the globe, as far west as Malagasy in Madagascar, as far east as Rapa Nui on Easter Island, and as far as north as the Formosan languages of Taiwan.

Mrs. Pacific Islands

Pacific Islands represents married women across the Pacific Island chain to include the Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, the Midway Islands, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands and Easter Island and is a part of the Mrs. United America Pageant.

Pavel Pavel

Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki, Pavel Pavel set out to demonstrate how the monolithic Moai of Easter Island might have been moved into place by a small number of people using only rudimentary technologies.

Polynesian rat

This rat also may have played a role in the complete deforestation of Easter Island by eating the nuts of the local palm tree, thus preventing regrowth of the forest.

The Polynesian rat originated in Southeast Asia, but like its relatives, has become well-traveled – infiltrating Fiji and most Polynesian islands, including New Zealand, Easter Island, and Hawaii.

Tadano Limited

They are also known by the project to restore the Ahu Tongariki Moai Statues on Easter island from 1991 to 1993.

The Third Chimpanzee

Examples include Easter Island and the ruins of Petra, both of which were the result of deforestation resulting in desertification.

Tuamotuan language

Pa‘umotu is closely related to the languages of eastern Polynesian including Hawaiian, Māori, Cook Islands Māori and Rapa Nui, the language of Easter Island.