Easter Island Statues Location

That' s very near Hanga Roa city centre, so you should come by, if only to see the only mai who has substituted his eye. In order to get the best pictures of the moon with your eye, you have to leave in the early mornings.

Easter Island's huge minds have shells, but landslips have overgrown them.

On the southeastern shore of the island of Rapa Nui are thirteen feet statues depicting the ghosts of the Rapanui, the aborigines of the so-called Easter Island. Rafa Nui, the most secluded populated island on the planet, is about 1,289 leagues from the island of Pitcairn in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

Most of the Polynesians live on the island. These statues, or moai as they were called by the islanders, were made of vulcanic-stone. About a year it took a group of five to six statues to finish each one. The majority of them stay in the quarries where they originated, but many have been built along the coastline, and some can be found in the inland.

These 18-ton statues seem to have been carried by the locals to various parts of the island. Easter Island minds are often pictured and have been examined over the years since the Europeans first spotted them in 1722. One of the first digs in 1914 revealed that the island's naturally eroded sculpture head was fixed to subterranean torsos - over the course of the ages they had been hit by mudflows.

The information was not widely available, which prompted the general opinion that the uncovered head and shoulder formed the whole sculpture. The archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, research assistant at UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and head of the Rock Art Archive, has been giving lectures and contributing on the statues for many years.

The Easter Island Statues project was launched in 1998 by Van Tilburg and the island's inhabitants to localise and record each of the statues with the most up-to-date facilities. "What we found under the pedestal of one of the statues was a sign-piece, a stronghold of asphalt with an engraved pattern of a half-moon, or a motive of a canoe," she said, "Over the course of the years, it seems, more of these couldoes were engraved on the sculpture in a continuous reiteration of their identities to confirm who they were.

Since the fellowship became less and less identical over the years, they might want to label these statues as their own," she suspected.