Easter Island Statues name

Moai Hava, which now sits on its own pedestal, is one of only 12 outside Easter Island that are open to the general public and have been borrowed from the British Museum. "We began getting the sculpture in May last year, and there were month of preparations to install it.

"This new exhibit will look at how the statues and their lace nodes, known as pukaos, were made, what their roles were in the life of the island' s inhabitants, how they were dismantled and moved across the island and what they mean. Making monuments on the island of Rafa Nui: Statues of Easter Island will be on display from 1 April to 6 September.

Secrets of Easter Island

More than 1,200 leagues from the closest populated island and over 2,000 leagues from Tahiti and Chile, Easter Island is one of the most secluded populated island in the atlantic. Easter Island" was named after a young discoverer from the Netherlands who discovered the island on Easter Sunday in 1722. Polynesia's name is said to relate to the similarity with the island of Rape on the basin island, but some say that Rape was the origin name of the people.

Unhabited for million of years, it is assumed that a group of seamen, perhaps from the Marquesas, ended up on Easter Island in 300 AD. Nearly half of the mai is still in the stone pit where the statues were made. There are statues that have never been finished, as well as the biggest mai, which, if it had been finished, would have been 71 ft high and weigh an approximate 270t.

Most of the other half of the famous statues were finished and brought across the island. Legend tells of humans who use godly forces to make the statues work, while other theoreticians describe a complicated system of cables, tree and man. Until 1868 all statues of the island were overthrown.

There are reports reminiscent of an island tribe overturning a sculpture, others speak of "earthquake", and it is thought that an quake could have caused the statues to fall. Discover the enigmatic Easter Island on board the marina: