|
EASTER ISLAND GETS A FACELIFT
|
IN 1987, a Japanese television crew visited Easter Island to
make a documentary. Before they left, they asked Segio Rapu,
governor of this tiny mass of barren Pacific rock, if he had any
particular wishes for the island. Rapu didn't hesitate. What he
yearned for was "a powerful crane to put back into place all of the
Moai that deserve to be standing."
The Moai, huge, monolithic stone heads carved from the rock of
extinct volcanoes, are among the world's greatest mysteries. No one
really knows how - or why - they came to be made. Their blank
expressions, lashed by the wind and the rain over ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
SECRETS IN STONE; THE ALLURE OF RUGGED, REMOTE EASTER ISLAND IS IN THE MYSTERY
; ...heads toppled? The "moai," or statues, have...a crater lake on Easter Island - perhaps they were...zenith, all of the moai were toppled and...made it back to Easter Island brought smallpox...than 100. Today Easter Island has about 4,000...of the 887 known moai ...
|
|
|
PsychoGeography Will Self Journey to Easter Island
; ...about my trip to Easter Island in February with...idea of going to Easter Island while we were staying...have used the famous moai, or standing-stone statues of Easter Island, to bolster their...means - going to Easter Island is for the ...
|
|
TWO THOUSAND MILES OF SKY If you really want to get away from it all, visit remote Easter Island, a drop in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It's also home to the world's most recognisable sculptures. Mark Rowe has never felt so lonely
; ...cosmonauts. Head for Easter Island and climb up to...every direction. Easter Island is little more...draws people to Easter Island. Most have been...carved statues, or moai, out of the Rano...prodigious effort the moai were moved and...Isle of Wight. Easter ...
|
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
|
GRANT ALLOWS FIRSTHAND STUDY OF STATUES ON EASTER ISLAND; LIVERPOOL TEACHER REPORTS ON TRIP TO EASTER ISLAND.(Neighbors Northeast)
; ...discovered and settled Easter Island around 400 A.D...stone statues called Moai found along the...to construct the Moai? What kind of tools...the Birdman Cult. Easter Island is a classic study...natives believed the Moai or present kings...circa 1680-1721. Easter ...
|
|
Intriguing stone giants lure visitors to Easter Island
; ...lure visitors to Easter Island By FRED J. ECKERT...all I knew about Easter Island. That's practically...statues known as moai. It is a very different...doctor father and Easter Island mother. We were driving...Polynesian natives call Easter Island - - is the most ...
|
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
|
BOUNTY HUNTER; Standing proud: The ancient carved heads on remote Easter Island and, inset, former TV reporter Sandy Gall aboard ship with a Pitcairn resident.
; ...SANDY GALL THEY say Easter Island, lost in the boundless...round-the-world cruise. Named Easter Island because it was sighted...of the statues, or moai in Polynesian, as we...before himcalled in at Easter Island for fresh water and...disaster had struck Easter ...
|
|
Record tourism could harm Easter Island statues
; EASTER ISLAND, Chile -- It's earth's...Navel of the World." But Easter Island is a bellybutton experiencing...suddenly stop making the Moai and topple the ones they...the pulling down of the Moai. The island's name comes...east. At 10 by 15 miles, Easter Island is roughly ...
|
|
EASTER ISLAND.(E)(Travel)
; ...Fred J. Eckert EASTER ISLAND - You probably have...his mother is from Easter Island. That's a pretty...asks. That's what Easter Island's Polynesian natives...all I knew about Easter Island when I arrived...statues known as moai. What I had expected...And it is ...
|
|
Isle of Mystery | More than a century has changed little on Easter Island
; ...aboard a French frigate, first saw Easter Island in 1872. Along the coast, huge stone...these monumental stone figures, or moai, and why? How were they made, how...Today, fewer than 3,000 people live on Easter Island, virtually all of them in the only...the ruling chiefs. Typically, the ...
|
|
Easter Island offers mystery at the end of the earth: this overlooked destination may just surprise you.(Geographic overview)
; ...read the postcards I sent from Easter Island's single, tiny post office...commemorative depicting the moai I'd come so far to see, and...passport rubber-stamped with three Easter Island imprints. Before leaving on...mysterious statues, known as moai (pronounced moh-eye ), have...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
Find more facts and
information related to the
article "EASTER ISLAND GETS A FACELIFT".
