Stone Giants Easter

Island One of the most isolated places on

Earth with a impressive and mysterious culture.

So how small is Easter Island?

Pacific Ocean at 27 degrees south of the equator and some 2200 miles (3600 kilometers) off the coast of Chile.

A jewel of an island floating in an endless sea

volcanic craters

lava formations

beaches and the brilliant blue water

small, hilly

massive statues that dot the coastline treeless island of volcanic origin

Admiral Roggeveen, named it Easter Island on Easter Day in 1722

2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile)

People who built the statues were of Peruvian descent or where they?

So what

went wrong?

population grew rapidly

outpaced the island's capacity to renew itself

social and cultural collapse

forests was gone, the rich ground cover had eroded away

springs had dried up

vast flocks of birds disappeared

no fishing - no wood to build canoes

famine and then cannibalism

This lead to total chaos

Once There Was a mountain formations

fishing streams hills forest

rich soil

So ----- have we learned from their mistakes?

But before we abandon all hope – take look at Easter Island today…………………..

Does anyone have any question?

http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html

Easter Island http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Isld_Pge.html

http://www.bugbog.com/gallery/chile_pictures/easter_island_pictures_7.html#ixzz0z7eCOw8M

http://www.geog.ucla.edu/tdfpacific/easter_island.html

http://www.naturalsciences.be/active/expeditions/archive2003/easter_island

www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/jan/30

trance@netaxs.com

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