Easter Island is one of the world's most mysterious places. It is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. There are very few trees left on this island and very few species of animals. But the mysterious thing is that on this island there are many big statues of stones with big heads which are looking like humans. These statues are called moai, which are created by Rapa Nui people. The Rapa Nui are the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. There are very few people live on this island. After seeing this mysterious island, many questions arise in mind. What is the truth of these statues and who made them and why? And where did all the people go? These statues are very old, very big and heavy. For this reason, people believe that it is very difficult to make such big statues by the ancient people with old sculpting tools and carry them to different parts of the island. That's why, they believe that it can not be a human work. People used to believe that these statues would have been made by monsters or it is the work of aliens. But when scientists started their research, there were many difficulties in finding the truth. Because there is no written evidence available about these statues. Due to this, scientists found it difficult to find the truth due to lack of evidence there.
Easter Island was discovered by Dutch people on Easter Sunday, hence the Island was named Easter Island. The name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (5 April) in 1722, while searching for Davis or David's island. The first inhabitants of this island were the Rapa Nui people. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. All of these statues are approximately 500 to 700 years old. The production and transportation of the more than 900 statues are considered remarkable creative and physical feats. People believe that the souls of the ancestors of the Rapa Nui people live in all these statues. Easter Island is a volcanic high island. There are three volcanoes on this island and these statues are made by stones which are built from lava emanating from them. There three volcanoes are Terevaka, Poike and Rano Kau. These three volcanoes give the island its roughly triangular shape. After making these statues, they were taken to different parts of the island. The largest moai raised on a platform is known as "Paro". It was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 82 tonnes (90.4 tons). There was one unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 21 m (69 ft) tall, with a weight of about 270 tonnes. But how these big and heavy statues were transported to different parts of the island. All these things have not been answered yet.
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