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Easter Island History and Culture - English
URL: http://gosouthamerica.about.com/cs/eastculture/

Descriptions of the island, geography, maps, background and culture, music and photos of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui and Isla de Pascua, from Bonnie Hamre, your guide to South America.

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EASTER ISLAND TATTOOS - English
URL: http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/tattoo.html

Figures.

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Chile - Easter Island - English
URL: http://www.geographia.com/chile/easterisland.htm

The first Europeans to stumble upon the tiny island were the Dutch, under the command of Admiral Jacob Roggeveen. Roggeveen made landfall on Rapa Nui on Easter Day of 1722, thus providing Easter Island with its modern name.

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Rapa Nui: The History of Easter Island - English
URL: http://www.learningbox.com/bunny/rapanui/history.htm

Over 1500 years ago navigator Hotu Matua led a band of explorer colonists across 2 thousand miles of landless seas.

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The Unmuseum - Easter Island - English
URL: http://www.unmuseum.org/easteri.htm

When the explorer Jacob Roggeveen found it on April 5, 1722 (Easter day, henceforth the name), the natives, numbering about 2,000, had no idea that other peoples, beside themselves, existed.

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Secrets of Easter Island | Stone Giants - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash.

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A Short Prehistory and History of Easter Island - English
URL: http://www.islandheritage.org/eihistory.html

From what we know of the material culture, language, and customs, it seems that the original settlers came from either the Marquesas Islands or from Mangareva around AD 400-600.

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