Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle.
A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai ( /ˈmoʊ.aɪ/), created by the early Rapanui people. It is a World Heritage Site (as determined by UNESCO) with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. In recent times the island has served as a warning of the cultural and environmental dangers of overexploitation. Ethnographers and archaeologists also blame diseases carried by European colonizers and slave raiding of the 1860s for devastating the local peoples.
Easter Island is claimed to be the most remote inhabited island in the world.
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3 comments:
All about the lolz with this one. Hilarious!!
That was very informative Bear and I must admit I had a giggle over the ones that had been "tampered" with.
Only you could find those kind of pictures ;-)
SELMA:
I particularly like the one with the tissues in the nostrils... been known to do that myself.
Gypsy:
I started off by doing a I'll Google That because I'd forgotten who the people where that lived on Easter Island, and I quickly realised there was a post in it as well.
Cheers ladies.
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