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Slipknot is Changing Their Masks to Easter Island Style
2008-04-07 01:59:00 American band Slipknot has announced that they are going to change their masks. The band has released a picture giving a hint of the new masks that will be published first time in Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival in July 9th. in Seattle. New masks of Slipknot are pretty big and remind Moai of Ploynesian island ...
Easter Island Travel Guide
2008-03-15 00:44:00 Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, Polynesian: Rapa Nui) is one of the most isolated islands on Earth. Early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (Navel of The World). Officially part of Chile, it lies far off in the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway to Tahiti. Easter Island is a small, hilly, now treeless island of volcanic origin. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called moai pronounced (Mow-eye), created by the Rapanui people. It is a world heritage site with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park. The current Polynesian name of the island, Rapa Nui or "Big Rapa", was coined by labor immigrants from Rapa in the Bass Islands, who likened it to their home island in the aftermath of the Peruvian slave deportations in the 1870s. The island received its most well known current name, Easter Island, from the Dutch sea captain Jacob Roggeveen who became the first European to visit Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722.It's believed that East...
Daily Photo - Easter Island
2008-02-08 19:08:00 I’ll be showing photos from Easter Island for quite a while. This was taken inside the Rano Raraku crater where most of the maoi were carved. Many horses on the island have become sick and died after eating the yellow flowers you can see in the photo.
[archaeologie-news] Video: Easter Island Rapa Nui, Moai statues and heads
2007-11-30 00:00:00 Video: Easter Island Rapa Nui, Moai statues and heads in Polynesia http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch? v=7v- YXkkabm8 Die Osterinseln liegen mitten im Suuml;dpazifik, etwa 4350 Kilometer #246;stlich von Tahiti, 4200 Kilometer wes...
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Easter Island
2007-10-27 03:51:00 Easter Island (or Rapa Nui to the indigenous Rapanui people, or Isla de Pascua in Spanish), is a Chilean-governed island in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern tip of the Polynesian triangle. Easter Island is famous for its enigmatic moai statues, and is a world heritage site with much of the island protected by the Rapa Nui National Park.
Sep 16, EASTER ISLAND PHOTO GALLERY PART TWO
2007-09-16 09:26:00 With Easter Island Photo Gallery Part two we complete the journey through the astonishing Moais of Rapa Nui.You too can upload your pictures and share your experiences as well ...
Sep 12, EASTER ISLAND PHOTO GALLERY
2007-09-12 21:07:00 Through Easter Island Photo Gallery we'll visit the mysterious and fascinating Rapa Nui, the island of enigmatic stone figures.Upload here your own pictures and experiences as well...
Aug 29, EASTER ISLAND
2007-08-29 16:04:00 The mysterious Easter Island is another fantastic sight in South America that will astonish and fascinate you at the same time....
Easter Island
2007-06-06 12:31:00 Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. The island is famous for its numerous moai, the stone statues located along the coastlines. Superb travel resources. Until the 1960s, the surviving Rapanui descendants were forced to live in a settlement at the outskirts of Hanga Roa because the island ...
Easter Island
2007-04-10 07:50:00 The Dutch Navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island in 1722.Easter Island is a tiny Island in Pacific Ocean 2,500 miles west of Chile. When Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Islands he was shocked to see huge stone statues there.Easter Island is volcanic, with very few trees. It does have plenty of insects and only rats as animal population.There were about 100 completed and 150 half finished statues on the Island. The statues have ruthless expression and are gigantic .Some of them as high as a three storied building and weigh over 60 tons. They signify Caucasian Males with long ears, large eyes, protruding chins and little legs. The statues are almost naked with some sort of carving around the stomach. The statues are so symmetrical that when erected they had perfect balance. Some of the statues are now topple and broken.The race they represent is a mystery with their turned-up noses and thin lips.They has no eyes but only have deep holes under the large noble head. They s...
Easter Island Travel Guide
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Easter Island Travel Guide. Easter Island, Chile: travel, easter island a mini travel guide to Easter Island outpost of Polynesia by travel writer David. . . |
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