The Mysterious Island

most likely explanation for what happened to the Roanoke colonists was that they died in some way, but there are other theories that suggest they moved away to start a new life. From 1584 to 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh funded expeditions to Roanoke Island. This is now known as the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter allowing Raleigh to “discover, search, find out, and view such remote heathen and barbarous Lands, Countries, and territories … to have,…

The Mysteries of the Easter Island Statues Explorers in the 18th century hoped to find something monumental, perhaps outlandish. When sailors made landfall on a tiny remote island, they found much more than they could have imagined: a land with a mysterious past and monumental statues that seemed far beyond their imaginations. Rapa Nui, or Easter Island as it was to become known, is the Polynesian island found in the southeast Pacific Ocean. Easter Island is considered to be one of the…

Easter Island is said to have formed from three converging volcanos about 7500 years ago. It is also believed to be the most remote spot on Earth making it an amazing thing that people happened upon it and made it their home. These people lived on a thriving island for hundreds of years before the downfall and ultimately their near destruction. Napa Nui are the people who occupied Easter Island and are said to have been religious and superstitious, giving the belief that the mysterious 850 or…

Vanderbes’ (2004) Easter Island novel tells a story of two women who visited the island 60 years apart. In 1912, Elsa Pendleton was arranged to marry her father’s colleague, Edward Beazley after her father’s death. In hopes of caring for Elsa and her mentally impaired sister Alice, Elsa accepts the marriage proposal. Archaeologist, Edward Beazley, accepted the offer to take an expedition to Easter Island to study the moai statues and the culture on the mysterious island. As a honeymoon trip for…

“These islands aren 't causing this problem. And because of that, they 're powerless to save themselves” (CNN). As a resident of East Tennessee, I do not see the effects of global warming on a day-to-day basis; if I’m being honest, I do not believe I have ever really experienced this besides an abnormally warm winter’s day. I have always heard of global warming being a thing, but I never realized how it impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each day. After reading these articles,…

Annotated Bibliography Silke Groeneweg What are the effects of climate change and subsequent rising sea levels on food production and security of the inhabitants of islands in the South Pacific? In the past few decades, climate change has become a bigger concern for researchers and the public alike. For the inhabitants of small island nations in the South Pacific, there is no issue more pressing or potentially detrimental to their lives. Scientists, policy makers, government officials and…

from left to right, bottom to top, which is also known as the reverse boustrophedon (Bahn, 1996). This famous enigma of Easter Island was first dated in 2003 with the use of the accelerator mass spectrometry technique and was concluded to have a 95% probability of being created in 1680 and 1740 AD (Orliac, 2005). They were discovered in the 19th century on the small island with…

November 2016 The Collapse of Easter Island Every year, hundreds of tourist travel across the Pacific Ocean to visit a small, barren grass island. They do not travel to see grass they travel such a far distance to get a closer look at the giant stone-heads, call moai. These mysterious moai made by the ancient Rapanuian people hold a similar fascination like the Stone Hinge in England. They beg the questions when, how, why, and who? History teaches us through Easter Island that respecting our…

The allegory, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a fictional novel about a plane crash on an island without any adults. The setting of the book is an island; “the shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or declined against the light and their green feathers were 100 feet up in the air.” And that the is,and is hot and tropical; “here and there, little breezes crept over the water beneath a haze of heat”. There are three main conflicts in this novel, they are a conflict with nature,…

reducing the productivity of agriculture. A significant number of the islands get their fresh water from underground fresh water tables. These tables exist because the less dense fresh water sits above the more dense salty water in the porous coral that makes up the island. When seawaters rise, they can easily breach the fresh water table, making that water become salty, and seriously reducing the availability of fresh water on the islands (Locke, 2009). Agriculture is already being impacted, as…