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Easter Island, Chile

Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is currently owned by Chile, with several large stone statues, monumental architecture, called moai. Its supposedly environmental collapse has been the focus of many recent archaeological studies.
Easter Island (owned by Chile)
Easter Island is a tiny dot of volcanic matter floating in the South Pacific Ocean, and currently owned by Chile.
Easter Island in Situ
A photo essay of some of the thousands of moai on Easter Island in their natural habitat
Rapanui (University of Valparaiso)
An extensive collection of information about the archaeology and anthropology of Easter Island, based on Castilian book "el Manual de Arqueología e Historia Rapa Nui". From Jose Miguel Ramirez-Aliaga at the University of Valparaiso, in Spanish.
Easter Island (Bradshaw Foundation)
The Bradshaw Foundation (based in South Africa), led by Damon de Laszlo, John Robinson and Georgia Lee, ran a project on Easter Island in the 1990s.
Easter Island Home Page
A portal for all the Easter Island resources on the web today.
Easter Island's End
Anthropologist Jared Diamond discusses what he believed happened to the culture Easter Island.
NOVA: Secrets of Easter Island
From the American Public Broadcasting Service program NOVA, a webpage dedicated to the archaeological investigations on Easter Island, with experimental attempts to raise a moai.
Photographs of Easter Island
A collection of aerial and ground photography by Clive Ruggles of the University of Leicester.

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