Rapa Nui
April 15th 2008 I've always been fascinated by Easter Island, the idea of a tropical island in the middle of the Pacific, miles from anywhere, populated by a people who would then spend hundreds of years obsessively building these slightly bizarre looking stylized statues in ever-increasing sizes.
So, time for a bit of history………
Easter Island was populated in the 5th or 6th century, probably by Polynesia
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