Rapa Nui

In 2012 easter island had a population of 5,800 people. About 60% of the people are relatives of the Rapa Nui people. Chile owns easter island There are three extinct volcanoes on easter island Did you know The oldest known names of Easter island are Te Pito o Te Henua, which means ‘ Center of the World’ and the 1860’s Tahitian sailors gave the island the name Rapa Nui, meaning ‘ ‘Eyes Looking to Heaven In 2008, a Finnish tourist was found on Anakena beach hacking an ear off a moai…

Moai figure. Like a different snowflake in a blizzard. Not one figure is alike. All 887 statues are unique. The history, description, and creation of the Moai strikes confusion and amazement into the souls of scientists, tourists, and the people of Rapa Nui. (Easter Island) Tenrandomfacts.com states, “It is believed that the native people created the Moai statues in honor of male ancestors.” These statues were made of stone by the native tribes of Easter Island. Travel.nationalgeographic.com…

Hawaiian Heiau, the Moai statues and ahu of Rapa Nui and Tahitian Marae. The reasons that might explain the similarities and differences between these two regions is due to the cultural traditions as a result of a linked ancestry and thereby similar cultural traditions. However, the differences could be due to the environmental landscape of each area and what the people building these monumental…

For my first article, I chose "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jared Diamond, regarding how on the surface agriculture would seem an obvious choice but if you dig deeper you may find proof that, that was not the case. As Diamond points out, progressivist claim that evolving from hunter and gatherers to becoming farmers was a win, win. It gave them more food to feed their tribes and more free time for leisurely things such as art. Diamond disagrees with this and so do I on…

More Than Just Paddling Outrigger Canoe Paddling is a sport that has deeper meaning than its externality. People that do not paddle only see the outside of the sport: a canoe with a flotation device on the side, and people putting paddles into the water. However, as a paddler myself, I discovered the internal aspect of the sport. During a long search I have discovered four intriguing sources. First is a book titled Hawai’i Sports: History, Facts, and Statistics by Dan Cisco. Cisco holds a…

Easter Island is actually the Rapa Nui island. We call it Easter Island because it was discovered on Easter weekend. Many years ago the Polynesian tribe settled there. It used to be a nice beautiful island with lots of trees and animals. Then around 320 AD the Polynesians settled there and it changed. When the Polynesians just settled, there wasn’t a big number of them, it is estimated that fewer than 100 started out on the island. The population soon thrived and grew. It grew to an estimated…

Easter Island a wonder of the world always questioned by scientists and historians for years. The chilean island in the south west pacific, has geographical wonders. Known to the native people as the Rapi Nui, it was named Easter Island when a European traveler discover the island first time on Easter day. The people of the island mysteriously vanished, but not entirely there are still descendants that live in polynesia. The big question is how did the ancient people suddenly disappears, and…

The spread, intensity, and reversibility of these actions are important things to consider when looking at a collapse. The Rapa Nui were living in a fairly stable and flourishing culture despite the drastic shifts in their island environment; they had adapted their farming and living practices instead of succumbing to the losses in their environment. As Diamond says, environmental…

than the Khmer Empire. The Polynesian Expansion is mainly a big triangle of Islands in the Pacific Ocean called the Polynesian Triangle. In the Polynesian triangle, Hawaii is the northern point of the triangle, Tonga and Samoa are in the west and Rapa Nui, Easter Island, is in the East also Aoteraroa, New Zealand, to the South. By living on all the small Islands you have an easier chance of escaping an enemy as you have all directions of the Island to escape. It is also situated in the middle of…

Easter's end starts off as an untouched island ragging with Rapa Nui trees across the land and also vast seabird colonies and fish such as tuna, mahi mahi, swordfish or kana kana, and seafood like lobster, shrimp and rape rape, a type of small lobster thriving in the water. Once settlers came to the island things…