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=Rapa Nui(Easter Island)= Rapa Nui or normally called Easter Island is Located in the middle of the pacific ocean and belongs to chile. Some Archaeologist are starting to think that the statues (Moai) were constucted in the 1600's.

// The population of Easter Island reached its peak at perhaps more than 10,000, far exceeding the capabilities of the small island's ecosytem.Resources became scarce, and the once lush palm forests were destroyed - cleared for agriculture and moving the massive stone moai. In this regard, Easter Island has become, for many, a metaphor for ecological disaster.

Thereafter, a thriving and advanced social order began to decline into bloody civil war and, evidently, cannisbalism. Eventually, all of the Moai standing along the coast were torn down by the islanders themselves. All of the statues now erected around the island are the result of recent arcaeologcal efforts.

Contacts and westerns "civillization" proved even more disastrous for the island population which, through slavery and diseise, had decreased to approximately 110 by the turn of the century. Following the annation by Chile in 1888, however, it has risen to more than 2,000, with other Rapanui living in Chile, Tahiti and North America. Despite a growing Chilean presence, the island's pollinesion identidy is still quite strong .CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY?OF RAPA NUI.

Lan Chile flies to Easter Island ,with flights operating from Santiogo , Chile and Papeete,Tahiti .Airfare from Santiogo,Chile to Easter Island and back cost about $800 US.And the people of Rapa Nui Called themselves Rapa Nui.

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