The mysterious Easter Island

If you like a challenge, you can visit the mysterious island in Chile. There are you will find Things Are mysterious and challenging. It is Easter Island, or Often Referred to as Easter Island. Easter island is a mysterious and remote island in the world. Easter Island located in Chile, roomates is in the southern Pacific Ocean. The island is located very far away from Chile, roomates is about 3515 Km west of mainland Chile, Easter Island in the province Including Valparaiso. Easter Island is triangular. Easter Island has an area of ​​about 163.6 km ².

 
Easter Island is a world heritage site and is one of the island that has the most isolated in the world's inhabitants. The island is protected by the Rapa Nui National Park and in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Easter Island, also known as Easter Island, Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua, is an island where there is a lot of statues made of stone. There are giant stone statues on Easter Island have had a lot of mystery. One was about how to move the statue. The biggest statue weighed 74 tons and 19 meters high.

In this island there is a well-known cultural artifacts that Moai and Rongorongo world. Moai who became a symbol of Easter Island is large sculptures made of stone carved in the past. Rongorongo a mysterious inscriptions found in different sheets (tablets). Rongorongo can not be described even multiple generations of linguists have tried. A Hungarian scholar, Wilhelm or Guillaume de Hevesy, in 1932 called attention to the similarity between some of the characters and the writing of Easter Island rongorongo prehistoric Indus Valley in India, roomates connects about 40 rongorongo the stamp mark of Mohenjo-daro. This relationship has been reissued in various books. Meaning rongorongo possibility is peace-peace, and his writings may record peace treaty documents, for example, between the long-eared and short-eared ruler. However, the explanation is still under debate, and there are experts who interpret rongorongo as saying.

According to the 2002 census, the population of 3791 inhabitants that majority settled in the capital of Hanga Roa. This island with many famous statues (moai), the statue is 400 years of age be Chiselled out of stone that is now located along the coastline.

Specialist from Dutch navigator Jakob Roggeveen found in the Easter Island on Easter Day 1722. Must be known that the "Rapa Nui" name not the original name of the Easter Island that was given by the Rapanui ethnic group. The name is created by the immigrant workers from the tribe of native Rapa in the Bass Islands and that was the same with the home village. The name given from tribe Rapanui island is Te Pito o te Henua, but this designation is also taken from other locations, may be from a building in the Marquesas. 

Large sculptures of stone, roomates is the symbol of Easter Island be Chiselled on the first. The Archeologist now estimate the gouge is held between 1600 and 1730. Chiselled be last statue when Jakob Roggeveen found this island. There are more than 600 large monolithic stone statue (Moai). Although the section is Often seen only "Head", moai actually have a complete torso. But many moai that have been buried up to his neck and most be Chiselled out of stone in the Rano Raraku. Popular theory states that the moai be Chiselled by the Polynesian inhabitants (Rapanui) at the time of this island as most trees and natural resources still sustain a population that many of the native Rapanui 10000-15000. The majority of the moai still standing upright when Roggeveen arrived in 1722. Captain James Cook also saw many moai that stand when he landed on the island in 1774. Until the 19th century, the statue has fallen due to internecine warfare.