There are about 900 Moai statues on Easter Islands.
Easter Island – How Many Moai
Month: April 2019
Easter Island – Moai
In the following days, I’ll show you pictures of fascinating moai statues and will try to present some facts about them.
(I wrote “will try”, because there are different opinions about moai and it’s not always so obvious…)
Moai statues are massive monolithic figures on Easter Island, built between the years 1250 and 1500.
Easter Island – More warnings
“Look, don’t touch!” is usually a good advice and recommendation.
Easter Island – Dangerous
Easter Island can be dangerous, as shown in today’s picture. 😉
Easter Island – more names
I’ve actually read there are more names of Easter Island.
Before Europeans came to Easter Island it was called:
- Te pito o te henua (navel of the world),
- Mata-ki-Te-rangi (eyes looking to the sky).
Easter Island – Isla de Pascua
Isla de Pascua is another name of Easter Island.
This comes from Spanish language.
Easter Island belongs to Chile; the official language of Chile is Spanish,
so we have “Isla de Pascua”. 🙂
Easter Island – Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui is a name commonly used when people refer to Easter Island.
However, this name came after the name “Easter Island”,
and it’s connected with a slavery. 🙁
Easter Island – Name
Why Easter Island is called like that?
-Well, just the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen “discovered” the Easter Island on Easter Sunday in 1722; so here it is. 🙂
Easter Island – Chile
Easter Island belongs to Chile,
it’s its special territory.
Easter Island – Introduction
This year, Easter is in April, so is there a better month to show you my pictures from the Easter Island? 😉
I was actually visiting the Easter Island in April, many years ago; exactly during my birthday – very nice memories. 🙂