Islands in the world of the strangest
Easter Island .. Navel of the world
Is like to .. Open-air museum
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Figure almost three-island, located in the South Pacific back to Chile, and away from 3.600 kilometers west,
Called by the local Rapanui (Peto T or T-languishing), or including means navel Alrabanue world in the language (the language of East Polynesia). Although small, but it is rich in heritage and natural beauty
Star on the map represent the island of Resurrection
Easter Island is one of the most isolated islands on the globe, with an area of 163.6 square kilometers, according to the statistics of 2002 amounts to a population of 3.791 inhabitants, 3.304 of them live capital Hangarwa
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In the background of this picture shows the capital Hangarwa
Before more than 1200 years has reached a group of sailors who began carving idols of stone giant named Mwai body of men volcanic rocks that have baffled archaeologists about how to move them from the quarry to the special platforms built on the shores of her island
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Mwai hats of red volcanic stone
The length of these idols tens of feet, each carved from one piece of stone, and although she is overlooking the coast, but most of them facing the island
The largest Mwai, who did not complete his sculpture there is still the land of Malacca on the quarry Rano Raraku, a length of twenty-one meters and the weight is estimated at more than 200 tons
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More Mwai
Quarry (volcano) Rarotonga Raraku
Lake in the crater Rarotonga Raraku
And still there are hundreds of Moai in various stages of sculpture scattered on the slope of a volcano Rano Raraku,
Buried in the soil depth (20-40) feet except the prominent part of
Slope of the volcano Rarotonga Raraku
Moai buried
The strangest Mwai idol on the island is the only hands and kneeling men. Was found in 1955
Front view of the strangest on the island Mwai
Rear view of Mwai Kneeler
Near the coast and stay sacred rock smooth spherical, non-volcanic called T Peto T Kura, including means navel or photophobia. Believed to represent the Navel of the Earth is also believed to have been brought in by the first commander to colonize the island
It is said that these rock magnetic energy can be felt with hands
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There are a lot of controversies and ambiguities about the origin of her family
Someone suggested that the idols carved by people from Peru (South America) and the other says that they probably came from Polynesia (eastern Australia), as there are many theories about how the transfer of the giant statues along the coast of the island
Map shows sites of which there are idols thousand along the coast of the island
Easter Island was named by Dutch Admiral Jeekp Rogeevin which it was presented at Judgement Day 1722
Christianity came to it through the French missionaries in 1866 and in 1996 UNESCO declared the island of Resurrection to be a world heritage site
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