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Easter Island: a remarkable culture built in the middle of nowhere.
Byline: Randy Curwen
HANGA ROA, Easter Island _ After 4 { hours of nothing below but blue, we are going down _ and heading toward a thousand-foot cliff.
This isn't like flying into Hawaii or Tahiti or most any other island in the world where you at least get a hint of land before you hit it.
No ships beneath, no warning reefs, no outlying islands, no mountains popping through the clouds _ nothing, absolutely nothing, in a million square miles of ocean prepares you for this.
Easter Island, a 64-square-mile dot of land without an inhabited neighbor for 1,200 miles, is by most means of reckoning the most remote inhabited island in the ...
- Easter Island: the eyes that speak to the sky.(LIFE)(Travel narrative)
- Magazine article from: World and I Hamilton, Doris April 1, 2007 700+ words
...inhabited island in the world. Easter Island is known in its native language...traditions, the first king of Easter Island was Hotu Matu'a, and many Rapa Nui scholars...Sunday "Paasch Eiland" (Easter Island). Thirty years later, the...
- Easter Island: a remarkable culture built in the middle of nowhere.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) November 20, 2003 700+ words
...Curwen HANGA ROA, Easter Island _ After 4 { hours of...prepares you for this. Easter Island, a 64-square-mile...mysteries: the statues of Easter Island. Who built these stone...journey, Ariki (King) Hotu Matu'a arrived from the...
- EASTER ISLAND.(E)(Travel)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Eckert, Fred J. November 10, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Fred J. Eckert EASTER ISLAND - "You probably have seen...doctor; his mother is from Easter Island. "That's a pretty scene...SOLEMNITY, MYSTERY What makes Easter Island so special is not just what...says the Polynesian king Hotu Matu'a dispatched from across...
- First Record of Baseodiscus bemprichii (Nemertea: Baseodiscidae) on Easter...
- Magazine article from: Pacific Science Boyko, Christopher B. January 1, 2001 700+ words
...1831) was collected from Easter Island during August 1999. This represents...first record of the species on Easter Island, the first identified nemertean...SMALL SOUTH PACIFIC landmass of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is situated...
- Easter Island
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures January 1, 1996 700+ words
Easter Island ETHNONYMS: Isla de Pascua, Pito...Rapa Nui Orientation Identification. Easter Island, the easternmost island in Polynesia...eventually became the preferred name for Easter Island throughout Polynesia. The origin...
- Endogenous technological progress and the Malthusian Trap: could Simon and...
- Human Ecology Decker, Christopher S. Reuveny, Rafael February 1, 2005 700+ words
...thought (Brown and Flavin, 1999). Easter Island is an intriguing place to study these...Polynesian civilization thrived on Easter Island. When the Europeans discovered the...trajectories suggested by other studies on Easter Island (see footnote 5). This interpretation...
- Easter island history revised.(Life)
- Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication May 5, 2006 700+ words
ANAKENA, Easter Island -- The Garden of Eden didn't exist--at least not on Easter Island, says a new study. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean located about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) west of its...
- MAXIM TOURS: Easter Island Encounter.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire August 25, 1998 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-25 August 1998-MAXIM TOURS: Easter Island Encounter (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Tours is introducing a 4 night package Easter Island Encounter to explore the mysteries of Easter Island by hiking and horseback riding around...
