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The Untold Truth Of Easter Island
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By Richard Milner/Feb. 15, 2021 9:12 am EDT
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island as it was called by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, is a small, 63-square-mile island at the southeast tip of what is referred to as the Polynesian triangle (Hawaii is at the northernmost tip, and Aotearoa New Zealand in the southwest). The size of the island, with its rocky coasts shorn yet green hilltops, belies the size of its complex history and home as one of archeology s largest, most enduring mysteries: the moai, its standout feature that most know as those big head statues.   ....

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