Moai are from Easter Island, but some of them were taken to other countries,
to join someone’s private collection or to museum, and everyone can see them.
On this Wikipedia website, you can check where Moai can be found.
Tomorrow, I’ll continue this topic, that seems to be a bit controversial.
One of the description of moai says they are a type of rock carving found on Easter Island.
Some of moai, have even designs carved on their backs and posteriors, as post stone working.
And some of them, were also painted.
Moai are often called as “Easter Island Heads”.
Moai heads are quite large, but the statues have the entire body,
however, it’s partly covered and not always visible.
Pukao is the name of hats that are placed on top of some moai.
Moai have eyes. 😉
Archaeologists found out that soem of moai have had eyes made of white colar (with black or red pupils).
Moai may be up to 10 m tall;
but the smalles have less than 1.5 m.
There are about 900 Moai statues on Easter Islands.
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.
“Look, don’t touch!” is usually a good advice and recommendation.
Easter Island can be dangerous, as shown in today’s picture. 😉
I’ve actually read there are more names of Easter Island.
Before Europeans came to Easter Island it was called:
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”. 🙂
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. 🙁
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 belongs to Chile,
it’s its special territory.
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. 🙂
Today, I’m showing you the last picture of my country.
I hope, you like some of them, and maybe you’ll visit Poland one day. 🙂
I’m an astronomer, so I have to show you at least one picture of Polish astronomical observatory.
So here it is – Astronomical Observatory in Piwnice, nearby Toruń, that belong to the Nicolaus Copernicus University. On the picture, you see 2 radiotelescopes, 15m and 32m antennas.
Gdańsk is a Polish city located by the Baltic Sea.
Maybe, one of the most interesting Polish cities, because of history, culture, and nearby nature.