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.
Easter Island – Easter Island Heads
Easter Island – Pukao & Moai
Pukao is the name of hats that are placed on top of some moai.
Easter Island – Eyes of Moai
Moai have eyes. 😉
Archaeologists found out that soem of moai have had eyes made of white colar (with black or red pupils).
Easter Island – How Big are Moai
Moai may be up to 10 m tall;
but the smalles have less than 1.5 m.
Easter Island – How Many Moai
There are about 900 Moai statues on Easter Islands.
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. 🙂
Poland – Final impression
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. 🙂
Poland – Astronomical Observatory
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.
Poland – Poznan
Poland – Gdansk
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.
Poland – Famous Polish People
I wanted to list here a few famous Polish people.
The first name that came to my mind was Maria Curie-Skłodowska,
the pope, Copernicus and Chopin.
But some people may be known because of current situation (e.g., Robert Lewandowski),
and others may be more or less known depending where you are from or what is your profession.
I’ll just write here a few names,
and please let me know, have you heard about any of them.
Marie Skłodowska Curie
Pope John Paul II
Nicolaus Copernicus
Frederic Chopin
Lech Wałęsa
Roman Polański
Stanisław Lem
Poland – Malbork Castle
Malbork Castle is a large 13th-century Teutonic castle,
one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
It’s a very popular tourist attraction for Polish people as well as for foreigners.