Easter Island - Mysterious "Navel of The Earth"

Easter Island - Mysterious "Navel of The Earth"

In the South Pacific, 4025 kilometers to the west coast of South America and 4,185 miles from Tahiti, is the isolated strip of land inhabited by humans: a mysterious triangle, consisting of 163 square kilometers of rock volcano, known as Easter Island.

    The name was given by Jacob Roggeveen, the Dutch admiral who saw her on Easter Sunday of 1722, but the island has fought at least two other names. Locals called it Rapa Nui – Rapa great – compared with Rapa Island, which lies on a smaller area. Legend says that when people first arrived on the island, the king gave them a name you-chapters-you Henua, meaning “navel of Earth”.

Discovery Island and statues moai

Dutch expedition of 1722 spent a day on Rapa Nui, but the sailors of the Netherlands has drawn up a detailed description of the island and the peaceful and friendly locals. Roggeveen’s reports mention an island almost devoid of trees, which lived about 3,000 people who spoke an unknown language.

The most interesting discovery of Dutch explorers became famous throughout the world: giant statues, stone, located along the island. Hundreds of statues were found in about 50 sites around the island and shocked the Dutch explorers, who thought they had discovered a primitive people did not understand how it could perform the mysterious statues. Islanders did not know the technology wheel, metal tools and had no land to work with animals.

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