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The Easter Island heads are located in the Rapa Nui National Park, according to the park’s website. The park has 887 Moai statues and 300 ceremonial platforms spread across the island, remnants ...
The statue was a gift from the people of Nii-jima (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining "moai" and the dialectal Japanese word moyai ( 催合い ) 'helping each other' .
Taken from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of HMS Topaze and is now on display in the British Museum. (Full article: Hoa Hakananai'a) Basalt 1.56 m The British Museum, London: United Kingdom 7 November 1868 1869.10-6.1 Moai Hava: In the British Museum's Oceanic collection Tuff 1.85 m Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris ...
Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.
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It was later changed to an Easter Island moai. In 2009, the statue was involved in an event featuring Lupin III , a popular manga character. On December 1, a "crime notice" was issued that the moyai statue would be "stolen" in seven days; on the early morning of the 7th the statue was removed from its site, with the character's calling card in ...
It has been known for a long time that the stones came from further than 12 miles away, but the long-distance links boost the theory that Stonehenge served a unifying purpose in ancient Britain.