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unusual facts about Rapa Nui



Anakena

Anakena was used as one of the film locations for the 1994 Kevin Reynolds film Rapa Nui, starring Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, George Henare and Cliff Curtis.

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.

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

The enemies in Strange Journey are called demons, a term encompassing creatures from different real-world mythologies, including Rapa Nui, Welsh, Hindu, and Christian mythologies.

Tangata manu

The ritual was an annual competition to collect the first Sooty Tern (manu tara) egg of the season from the islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui and climb the sea cliff of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.

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.

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).


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101 East

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.

CF San Pedro de Atacama

The team played two unofficial games against a team from the San Pedro de Atacama in 2010 and 2011.Before playing its first official match on he first round of the Copa Chile 2010; CF Rapa Nui lost in 2 matches against Universidad Católica.

Eru Potaka-Dewes

During the 1990s and early 2000s (decade) he also was working as an actor, appearing in Jane Campion's film The Piano and Rapa-Nui, produced by Kevin Costner.

Middelburg

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

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.

Rapa Nui Point

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

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.