Chile 🇨🇱, Easter Island

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is an island in the Pacific Ocean in Chile, famous for its giant stone statues.

Easter Island has a unique landscape with volcanic craters, lava formations, shining blue water, beaches, low hills, cattle farms and many archaeological excavations, and most of them are devoted to the study of moai figures. They reach a height of 10 m

The sailors, when they first saw the island, were amazed by these colossal stone statues lined up along the coast of the island. What kind of people were they who were able to install multi-ton stone giants? Why did they settle in such a secluded place? Where did the stone from which the sculptures are made come from?

The first settlers on the island were Polynesians in the V century . Their culture has been preserved to this day in the form of giant stone figures (moai). Carriers of this culture were also called "long-eared", because it was customary for them to stretch their earlobes to their shoulders.