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Oh, moai! Some of these gigantic stone sculptures, known as meal, are 72 feet tall and weigh 160 tons. It's still a mystery how the carvers of the ancient statues moved them several miles from the quarries where they made them to the coast of this Chilean island. Europeans named the island in 1722, but the native people already had a name for it. What is it?

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