easter island is way, way out there

[FREKI]

Cool shots mate!

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by FREKI

Cool shots mate!

i would love to see your camera work on the moai --

-- just a suggestion if you are looking for ideas for a big vacation idea!

[cityskyscrapers]

Thanks for sharing this trip to this remote island. Enjoyed the photos and travel account.

[LSyd]

fascinating. thanks for the tour

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[mrnyc]

very shocking and sad news to report from the iconic volcano moai quarry site --



WORLD
The iconic Easter Island statues have been damaged in a fire, authorities say

October 7, 20222:26 PM ET


The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable" damage in a fire, local authorities said.

A photo shared by the municipality of Rapa Nui on social media shows several charred statues in the aftermath of a blaze that swept through around 250 acres of an area called Rano Raraku, which includes the stone sculptures known as moai.


more:
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/11275...uthorities-say

[mousquet]

^ You get a glimpse of the damage in this report.

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Local officials would be dumbstruck, talking about irremediable damages to the statues known as moai.

I guess everybody's seen pictures of those statues. They're something most famous in the world.
Hopefully, they find some way to restore them without perverting their original character.

[geomorph]

This is a reminder to photograph and share special experiences like this thorough trip report!

[mrnyc]

bump for a new study — big surprize it turns out natives did not clear the land and over extend themselves, as was often said, but the euros killed them off —



Popular theory claiming Easter Island’s population collapsed due to ‘ecocide’ is disproved

How modern archaeological research has rescued the reputation of the world’s most remote ancient civilisation

David Keys
Archaeology Correspondent
11 hours ago


New archaeological research has disproved one of the world’s most famous historical narratives - the environmental cautionary tale that claimed that the ancient civilisation of Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean collapsed because the islanders destroyed its ecosystem.

The research instead reveals how that civilisation thrived through tenacity and innovation until it was ultimately destroyed not by Indigenous Polynesian environmental catastrophe, but by European aggression, disease and exploitation.


more:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...6b0bd14c91ef24


For hundreds of years, the sculpting of giant ancestor stone statues was central to Easter Island’s civilization. The largest statue in this photograph is 9 meters tall and weighs 86 tons (Wikimedia Commons).