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Explora En Rapa Nui Rising On Easter Island
Hotel Interactive
5/25/2007 1:40:29 PM

While there has never been a shortage of wondrous sites to behold on Easter Island, the lodging options have long been limited at best. No more. Posada de Mike Rapu, the new outpost for explora en Rapa Nui, promises a fresh face of environmentally stylish and sensitive hospitality on the magic Pacific landmass.

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"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #54

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Dark tears for a quiet killer
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - May 20, 2007
There was something blank and even solemn about him, like an Easter Island statuette. "When you look into Dartelle's eyes," as a prison officer once ...

Technorati Gets a Redesign
Blogger News Network - May 23, 2007
Without Apple, Microsoft would petrify — it’s icon could become Uncle Bill as an Easter Island stone face. Without Microsoft, Apple would flabbify — going ...

New7Wonders and Rapa Nui

Peru's Machu Picchu among 10 most voted New 7 Wonders
Living in Peru, Peru - May 7, 2007
Listed in alphabetical order, the top 10 candidates are: Acropolis (Greece), Chichen Itza (Mexico), the Coliseum (Italy), the Easter Island Statues (Chile), ...

The Alhambra needs a push
Sur, Spain - May 10, 2007
... Machu Picchu in Peru, Petra in Jordan the statues of Easter Island in Chile, Stonehenge in the UK, the Taj Mahal in India and Angkor in Cambodia. ...

45mn vote for updated seven world wonders
Middle East Times, Egypt - May 21, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge, and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Voters choose new wonders
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Egypt pyramids off new seven world wonders list
Middle East Online, UK - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Millions vote for new wonders of the world
Kuwait Times, Kuwait - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

US, Europe least enthused over new 7 wonders
Reuters - May 22, 2007
... mountaintop city Machu Picchu, Jordan's desert city of Petra, the mysterious statues of Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Over 45m vote in Net campaign to select world’s new 7 wonders
Peninsula On-line, Qatar - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain’s Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Millions vote for 'new' wonders of the world
Radio Australia, Australia - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Millions around the globe vote for new seven wonders
Pretoria News (subscription), South Africa - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Campaign to create a global heritage
The Mercury (subscription), South Africa - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Search for 'new' seven wonders
Brisbane Times, Australia - May 22, 2007
... Great Wall of China, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India. ...

Rapa Nui's economy led to deforestation

Bee's Global Losses at 80% due to Global Warming and Impact of Peak: Oil, GDP and CO2 / Commodities / Climate Change
By: David_Petch
Market Oracle
May 20, 2007 - 06:45 PM

A former tribe living on Easter Island made an economy for building and moving statutes. Carts were made to move the statues as well as maintain a fleet of fishing vessels and homes. The rapid explosion of their population resulted in complete deforestation of the island, which translated into no new fishing boats to be built or maintenance of current ones i.e. no fish, no food with death to follow. The sudden disappearance of the trees collapsed the statue industry and all was abandoned; the civilization as they knew it ceased to exist.

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Auckland yachtsman's New Zealand to Rapa Nui sailing trip

Epic trip to see Team NZ
By Jane Phare
New Zealand Herald
5:00AM Sunday May 20, 2007

But this time he's crossed two oceans and sailed through two seas, all so he can watch Emirates Team New Zealand win the Louis Vuitton Cup and snatch the America's Cup back off the Swiss. He and three crew left Auckland Harbour on December 27 bound for Easter Island 400 nautical miles away.

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Monolithic Pop Culture References #53

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Language of the space men
Telegraph.co.uk, UK - May 7, 2007
... too, in Giacometti's head of a Man With a Big Nose (1958) which, though only about 20 inches high, has the monumentality of an Easter Island statue. ...

Last night’s TV
Times Online, UK - May 9, 2007
... opinion-free manners and are mild to the point of being insipid, Meades is more like an Easter Island statue styled by the Blues Brothers with a grumpy, ...

How Green Is My Sculpture?
New York Sun, NY - May 9, 2007
... tradition of Picasso's sculptures that zoomorphize handlebars or toy cars — here it is plastic jerry cans that do double duty as Easter Island heads. ...

Athletic talent and 'a special spirit' set Samoan rookie foursome ...
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - May 10, 2007
American Samoa, Hawaii, New Zealand, Tonga, Tahiti, Easter Island and Marquesas are all in the Polynesian Triangle. The wave of Polynesian players in the ...

Gormley: Am Ia megalomaniac?
This is London, UK - May 11, 2007
Asked whether he sees his work in the tradition of a timeless Easter Island monolith or a muscular, testosterone-charged Roman statue, he says the former. ...

Remembering Derek
Times Online, UK - May 12, 2007
But apart from being an ideas man, he was a practical one, as well – you only have to look at the 20ft Easter Island primitive head in my film Savage ...

WE'RE SMALL... AND WORRIED ABOUT YOUR INACTION
Electric New Paper, Singapore - May 13, 2007
American columnist Scott O'Reilly compared the situation to how the inhabitants of Easter Island were wiped out after they cut down all the trees on the ...

Cities shouldn't cave in to developers
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - May 18, 2007
... our historic and community areas, and to defend the wilderness and agriculture zones, or we will become another example of what happened on Easter Island.

In the world of gardening, this is 'fetish' weekend
Montreal Gazette (subscription), Canada - May 19, 2007
I'm talking about gargoyles, Buddha and Easter Island statues and Mayan art. Things that accessorize an outdoor area. What about the Virgin Mary? ...

Rapanui shares language ties with vast region

Council plans to revitalize languages
Taipei Times, Taiwan - May 11, 2007
Austronesian languages are spoken from the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa, all the way to isolated Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and extending ...

Plan mulled to revitalize indigenous language
China Post, Taiwan - May 11, 2007
... isolated Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and extending to Taiwan, Vietnam, Northern Australia, New Zealand and most of the Melanesian and Polynesian islands. ...

DS game features moai

It's a Wonderful World Hands-on
It's a wonderful DS game so far.

by Craig Harris
IGN
May 13, 2007

The task in the demo was to follow a mysterious cloaked man through the downtown area, and after each conversation with him players jumped into combat sequences against crazy characters such as penguins, crabs, Easter Island heads, and, yes, even some bad-ass kangaroos.

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Hope for Rapa Nui's mahute plant

CHILE: PROJECT LAUNCHED TO SAVE TRADITIONAL EASTER ISLAND PLANTS
SOURCE: LA NACION
By Santiago Times Staff (editor@santiagotimes.cl)
Santiago Times
May 10, 2007

A new project being carried out by the Universidad CatÛlica looks to rescue the mahute plant, a traditional and endangered species that for centuries Easter Island residents have used to make cloth.

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Rapanui people: "What to do with moai?"

Islanders: Leave stones alone
Easter Island residents say enough scarce funds have gone to restoring statues to attract tourists.
Larry Rohter / New York Times
DetNews.com
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

What should be done about the hundreds of other stone icons scattered around the island, many of them damaged or embedded in the ground?

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Mat Lauer/Rapa Nui

Users Follow This Guy Around the World
NBC Universal's "The Today Show" engages fans in an online game of hide-and-seek, letting users explore the exotic locals visited by the show's globe-trotting host, Matt Lauer.
iMedia Connection
May 08, 2007

Yet, Matt's Video Passport did capture my interest. I found the videos well-produced, entertaining, of a good length and informative (I had no idea an American 'rediscovered' Machu Picchu in 1911. I thought Easter Island was currently uninhabited.) The video resolution was also good, although if you watch enough YouTube, anything looks good by comparison.

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Rapa Nui background report

Easter Island Background and Travel Tips
From Bonnie Hamre
About
May 5, 2007

This background report covers some of the island's history, the famous moais, population, theories and things to do and see, including the "the most mind-jarring stop is at Rano Raraku, whose volcanic obsidian was the test tube lab of the moai."

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Rapa Nui spoof

Easter Island Statues Just a Cultural Joke
Written by Mathmission
TheSpoof.com
Story written: 03 May 2007

Easter Island, Chili - After decades of research, scientists believe they have decoded the hidden meaning behind the large stone head statues located on Easter Island, Chili. A scroll was discovered on the island that gave indisputable proof of the meaning behind the heads.

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Around the World by Private Jet/Rapa Nui

American Express Travel Becomes First Travel Company To Offer Smithsonian Journeys' Educational Tours
PR-Inside.com
May 3, 2007

In Around the World by Private Jet, span the globe in just three weeks drinking in the world's greatest natural treasures and legendary locales, from Machu Picchu to the Great Barrier Reef, from Easter Island to Tibet, all by private jet.

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Monolithic Pop Culture References #52

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

The 25 wonders of the world
Times Online, UK - May 3, 2007
Venice, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Easter Island statues . . . these are not sights from which people return saying the reality was a bit of a let-down. ...

Salvaging an inspiration
Lahontan Valley News, NV - May 4, 2007
He made a replica of the Starship Enterprise and a sailboat out of car parts, a moon-landing scene using GI Joes and an Easter Island Head statue resembling ...

Parisian artist to exhibit at local cafe
Annapolis Capital, MD - May 4, 2007
Yet his figures are distorted, pulled like taffy, with earthy shapes and faces evocative of the giant Easter Island heads or primitive fetish dolls. ...

Lincoln Kirstein, As Others Saw Him
PlaybillArts, NY - May 4, 2007
Her colleague Anne Crowell has compared his dour expression to that of the stones on Easter Island. Others thought he resembled an eagle — or even Moses. ...

Unending Aryan immigration debate
Organiser, India - May 7, 2007
It details all the hypotheses that link Indus scripts to Dravidian language, the Munda script, the Easter island connection, and also the hypothesis of the ...

Small ship cruise to Rapa Nui

Take a Cruise on a Small Ship
By Beth Brophy
Provided by Kiplinger.com
WTVM
May 2, 2007

Zirkle recalls a recent cruise to Micronesia on a 150-passenger vessel with his wife, Sara, 67, a pediatrician. On a visit to remote Easter Island, they listened in awe as their anthropologist guide described how he had led a dig that unearthed one of the famous ancient stone statues along the shore. "They had excellent study guides, with an impressive breadth of knowledge," Zirkle says.

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Diamond: Rapa Nui is "metaphor for our planet"

Diamond warns of societal 'Collapse'
Middlebury Campus (subscription), VT - May 2, 2007
He then critically examined our own society, emphasizing that ecological issues could be its demise, as they were to the Maya and Easter Island ...

Learning from past
The Spokesman Review, WA - May 3, 2007
In his book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," writer Jared Diamond chronicles the missteps of Easter Island dwellers who chopped down all ...

More Night at the Museum articles

The Alternate Ending DVD Review: Night at the Museum
411mania.com, TX - May 1, 2007
The giant Easter Island head that’s obsessed with bubble gum? Yawn. And of course the precocious monkey that likes to steal the guards’ keys. ...

VIDEO FUN HOUSE: 'Night at the Museum' an imaginative romp a whole ...
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - May 3, 2007
JEAN: There are a handful of recognizable actors -- there's Brad Garrett's voice (as the Easter Island sculpture), Robin Williams and -- of course -- Owen ...

VIDEO FUN HOUSE: 'Night at the Museum' an imaginative romp a whole ...
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - May 3, 2007
JEAN: There are a handful of recognizable actors -- there's Brad Garrett's voice (as the Easter Island sculpture), Robin Williams and -- of course -- Owen ...

Monolithic Pop Culture References #51

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Grass Mountain, still mostly snow-covered, came into view as we climbed. From the road and from the trail there are intriguing rock formations to be seen, especially to the west. One was reminiscent of something you might see on Easter Island.

The Age:
But perhaps the glamour at the Darling Harbour convention centre is all an illusion. We can't tell you, because we are not allowed in. The staff at the bottom look more cheerful than Easter Island statues, but their resolve is implacable.

Cyprus Mail:
I’d flick through the photos of Daniken at the pyramids or Easter Island: his argument that if extraterrestrials existed and had entered our solar system in the past it should be possible to find evidence.

ROSS COUNTY 2 GRETNA 3
ic Scotland.co.uk, UK - Apr 30, 2007
Davie Nicholls' Easter Island facial features are as hard as his drive in the middle of the park and it was his decision to fire through Danny Moore and ...

Local artist salvages his inspiration
Nevada Appeal, NV - Apr 30, 2007
He made a replica of the Starship Enterprise and a sailboat out of car parts, a moonlanding scene using GI Joes and a Easter Island Head statue resembling ...

Getting Over It
New Hampshire Magazine, NH - May 1, 2007
Future generations will be as stumped about these strange shapes as we are about those weird face statues on Easter Island. They’ll probably think aliens ...

Luxury travel to Rapa Nui

What Does A $70000 Dollar Vacation Look Like?
ABC30.com, CA - May 1, 2007
It included stops at Easter Island, ruins in Cambodia, the lost city of Petra in Jordan and the pyramids of Egypt. Linda works in home construction and ...

What Does A $70000 Dollar Vacation Look Like?
abc7news.com, CA - May 1, 2007
It included stops at Easter Island, ruins in Cambodia, the lost city of Petra in Jordan and the pyramids of Egypt. Linda works in home construction and ...

Abercrombie & Kent private jet tour to Rapa Nui

Abercrombie & Kent present South America and Easter Island
Source = e-Travel Blackboard: C.C
e-Travel Blackboard
Monday, April 30, 2007

Abercrombie & Kent has launched its new Private Jet Tour this April, which carries passengers aboard a 757-200 ER over South America and Easter Island.

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Manulife president set himself apart with visit to Rapa Nui and other "less-visited regions"

Manulife president does it his way
By DALJIT DHESI
Malaysia Star
Monday April 30, 2007

Unlike most people in Britain who prefer to go for a holiday in Spain and France, Robertson did the reverse by going to other parts of the world, including some of the less-visited regions like Papua New Guinea, Easter Island or Central America.

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Easter Island Marathon articles

Marathon tourism lets you combine race, vacation
Ottawa Citizen (subscription), Canada - Apr 29, 2007
June 10: Some marathon courses make you feel like you're running in the middle of nowhere, but Easter Island is 3700 kilometres from any major population ...

Marathon Races Scheduled For Easter Island and Antarctica
About - News & Issues, NY - May 1, 2007
Easter Island Marathon on June 10: "Some marathon courses make you feel like you're running in the middle of nowhere, but Easter Island is 3700 kilometres ...

Globetrotters: Traveling the world to run in marathons is booming.
Austin American-Statesman (subscription), TX - May 5, 2007
Sure, you can take a marathon vacation in London or Rome, but Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel also offers trips to Kenya, Easter Island in the South ...

Rapa Nui travel info and history

Easter Island
Island
By JANE WOOLDRIDGE
McClatchy Newspapers
Bradenton Herald
Posted on Sun, Apr. 29, 2007

Even in the murk of a sullen, gray afternoon, the massive stone sentinels of Ahu Tongariki seem imperious, an uncompromising guard against the gluttonous sea crashing at its flank.

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Around the world travel includes stop at Rapa Nui

Local couples travel around the world
By Ashley McKnight-Taylor
Suffolk News Herald Online
Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:09 PM CDT

From there, the travelers jetted across the South Pacific to the isolated Easter Island, home to giant stone monoliths, known as Moai, that dot the coastline.

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Moai said to represent elders, judges, and ancestral wise men

Polynesian wonders
Easter Island's massive sentinels, called moai, are said to represent elders, judges and ancestral wise men
By Jane Wooldridge McClatchy-tribune
Arizona Daily Star
Published: 04.29.2007







Even in the murk of a sullen, gray afternoon, the massive stone sentinels of Ahu Tongariki seem imperious, an uncompromising guard against the gluttonous sea crashing at its flank.

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Rapa Nui's "dilema faced by Rome, Anasazi, Mayans and present day Rwanda

SELECTED GROWTH FALLACIES: PART 15--NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS
Frosty Wooldridge
American Chronicle
April 28, 2007

In his book, “COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond illustrated how great civilizations dismantled their own sustainability. On tiny Easter Island, humans ignored nature, cut down all the trees, built 50 ton rock monuments and died of overpopulation via starvation. Today, we’re faced with the same dilemmas Rome, Anasazi, Mayans, present day Rwanda and other vanished civilizations discovered.

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VOICE award winner visited Rapa Nui

Ladies day out
Corsicana Daily Sun, TX - Apr 27, 2007
On a trip to Easter Island, her entire group’s luggage was misplaced for the duration of the trip, although it turned up again as they were headed home. ...

Green nabs award, Brooks captures VOICE crowd
Corsicana Daily Sun, TX - Apr 27, 2007
On a trip to Easter Island, her entire group’s luggage was misplaced for the duration of the trip, although it turned up again as they were headed home. ...

New7Wonders/Rapa Nui

I Media Corp partners with N7W of World Voting Campaign
Moneycontrol.com (press release), India - Apr 27, 2007
To name a few from the 21 nominees are Machu Picchu – Peru, Chichen Itza - Mexico, The Easter Island Statue – Chile, Kiyomizu Temple – Japan, ...

Name seven places that make you wonder -- Cast your vote
Post-Bulletin, MN - Apr 27, 2007
... the Sydney Opera House; Cambodia's Angkor; Timbuktu; Petra in Jordan; Rio's Statue of Christ Redeemer; Easter Island; and Chichen-Itza, Mexico. ...

JTV telethon boosts Petra's bid to become New 7 Wonder
Middle East North Africa Financial Network, Jordan - Apr 29, 2007
... for the honour include the Coliseum, the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids of Giza and the statues of Easter Island. ...

Chamber hoping for a blaze of glory
Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada - Apr 30, 2007
Finalists include the Statue of Liberty, the Acropolis in Athens, Chichen Iza in Mexico, The Kremlin, the Great Wall of China, Easter Island, Hagia Sophia ...

Posada de Mike Rapu

Josef Stirnimann Appointed General Manager And Executive Vice President Of Explora
Hotel Interactive, Inc
4/26/2007 10:45:38 AM

Chief among explora’s developments is the on-going construction of ‘Posada de Mike Rapu’, a new 30-room lodge for explora en Rapa Nui on the southern edge of Easter Island that is scheduled to open for guests by year-end 2007.

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Matt Lauer/Rapa Nui

Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?
WPXI.com, PA - Apr 25, 2007
This is the eighth week-long expedition for Lauer, whose past trips have taken him to such exotic locales as the remote Easter Island, the lights of ...

Where in the world is Enid, Okla.
Enid News & Eagle, OK - Apr 28, 2007
Previously his exhaustive travels have taken Lauer to some of the world’s far-flung wonders, like Mt. Everest, Peru’s Machu Picchu, Easter Island and ...