Rapa Nui News Hiatus

Rapa Nui News is on an indefinite hiatus. Here is a list of other websites with information about Rapa Nui (Easter Island):

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Biblioteca William Mulloy
Easter Island Foundation
Easter Island Statue Project
Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert

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Monolithic Pop Culture References #71

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:

Jaap Stam retires from football - how will he be remembered?
Who Ate All The Pies, UK - Oct 30, 2007
Man mountain and Easter Island lookalike, Jaap Stam, has called an end to his playing career because of injury and a lack of focus. ...

LATEST REVIEWS
LA City Beat, CA - Nov 1, 2007
... couple like some kind of Easter Island head – communicates the powerful message that socialism, like fascism, has been swept away by the winds of time. ...

AIM Report: The Way Things Used to Be - November A
Accuracy In Media, DC - Nov 2, 2007
... book Chariots of the Gods postulated that ancient astronauts were responsible for such mysteries as Stonehenge and the giant statues of Easter Island. ...

"Easter Island" reminder

Letters From Readers
Energy Central, CO - Nov 1, 2007
I can only remind people of 'Easter Island', that little island situated in the South Pacific where an experiment in human survival occurred in the 19th ...

Dramatic dance scenes depict Rapanui survivors

Scientific dance mash up
Sacramento News & Review, CA - Nov 1, 2007
The dramatic scenes with actors tell a story—by turns humorous and apocalyptic—about a man and woman who appear to be the only survivors on Easter Island, ...

Daniel Clemmett's witty take on moai

Emerging from the ruins
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Oct 31, 2007
Daniel Clemmett used parts from car bonnets for his witty take on the famous Moai statues on Easter Island. Titled Ran Out of Wood, his assemblage of rusty ...

Visual treats at Sculpture by the Sea
Daily Telegraph, Australia - Oct 31, 2007
Daniel Clemmett used parts from car bonnets for his witty take on the famous Moai statues on Easter Island. Titled Ran Out of Wood, his assemblage of rusty ...

Tingo/book

Tingo is the lingo with a word for everything
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Oct 30, 2007
His first book, The Meaning of Tingo, which derives its title from a word in the Pacuense language of Easter Island conveying the practice of borrowing ...

Linguist Adam Jacot de Boinod has trawled 300 languages to find ...
ic Wales, United Kingdom - Nov 1, 2007
Incidentally, Tingo, in the book’s title, is the word used by the Rapa Nui tribe of Easter Island to describe someone who borrows things from a friend’s ...

Posada de Mike Rapu/Explora/luxury hotel on Rapa Nui

Luxury hotel to open in December in Chile’s Easter Island
MercoPress, Uruguay - Oct 30, 2007
Officials from Posada de Mike Rapu, Explora’s new luxury hotel on Chile’s Easter Island, confirmed that it will open on December 15. ...

Easter Island Luxury Hotel Open in December, 2007
About - News & Issues, NY - Nov 1, 2007
Luxury hotel to open in December in Chile’s Easter Island (mercopress): "Officials from Posada de Mike Rapu, Explora’s new luxury hotel on Chile’s Easter ...

Monolithic Pop Culture References #70

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:

Character coaches what the A-League needs
The Age, Australia - Oct 24, 2007
In fact, his emotionless pitchside stare has invited comparisons with an Easter Island statue although it also made him a cult figure within the game. ...

Runoff Report--Hunting community gives thumbs up to pit method
Lake County News Chronicle, MN - Oct 25, 2007
Studying ancient blueprints from projects such as the Easter Island Moai statues, Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza, we knew we wouldn’t have an ...

The Never Ending Voyage: ExWeb's interview with Henk de Velde
Mounteverest, NY - Oct 26, 2007
His son was born on Easter Island and the small family roamed the oceans without all the fancy stuff. Henk still brings all the water he needs with him, ...

The Surveying Inspired Art of Perri Lynch
Amerisurv (press release), MD - Oct 27, 2007
... stones would end up in places like Vancouver, British Columbia, the edge of the Arctic Ocean, the tip of Mongolia, even Easter Island. ...

UN postal program honors Rapa Nui among South America's wonders

In Honor Of South America's Natural Wonders
Hartford Courant, United States - Oct 30, 2007
The New York stamps show views of the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), and Easter Island, also known by its indigenous name Rapa Nui, which is claimed by Chile. ...

Moai painted on wooden chest

Once a cancer fighter, always a fighter
London Free Press, Canada - Oct 29, 2007
On the chest, made of oak and cedar, Bradley painted the Parthenon, the Roman Colosseum, Easter Island Statues and Kukulkan's Pyramid. ...

Polynesian Triangle

Ancient mariners enjoyed Hawaiian holidays
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Oct 30, 2007
... first reached the islands of the east Pacific, including Hawaii and Easter Island, by chance, drifting there on currents or carried by storms. ...

Rapa Nui's "Last Tree"

THE CULTURE ARTIST: The Last Tree
HNN Huntingtonnews.net, USA - Oct 29, 2007
By Chuck Hall
When Polynesian settlers arrived at Easter Island, they found a tropical paradise waiting for them. Archaeological evidence shows that when ...

Rare tiki on Rapa Nui

Three weeks on the Aranui from Tahiti to the Marquesas
Cape Cod Today, MA - Oct 28, 2007
The only other place these tiki exist is on Easter Island. Our next island, Ua Huka, has 2000 wild horses. The locals round up one only when they need it. ...

2009 total solar eclipse/Rapa Nui

Tours are aligning to the east for 2009's total solar eclipse
USA Today - Oct 25, 2007
The next big eclipse occurs in 2010 over Easter Island, but don't get too excited unless you've already made plans. Limited air access and lodging on the ...

New Rapa Nui/moai book

UW Professor, Former Students Work on Easter Island Book
University of Wyoming News, WY - Oct 25, 2007
The book’s introduction will feature Gill’s own description of his research on the ancestors of Easter Island, particularly face and head forms, stature, ...

Chilean wine and a trip to Rapa Nui

Chilean Challenge
The Times, South Africa - Oct 25, 2007
... huge copper mines and giant valleys full of vines plus Easter Island with its inscrutable statues bearing mute testimony to the ancients who chopped ...

One year to live? Visit Rapa Nui

What would you do with one year to live?
Kansas City Star, MO - Oct 24, 2007
“I’d go back to Paris, then I’d go to Easter Island to see the giant stone guys, Australia to see the Great Barrier Reef, and I’d try to swim in all seven ...

First mobile WiMax network in Latin America, coverage includes Rapa Nui

Telmex launches WiMax e in Latam
Business News Americas, Chile - Oct 24, 2007
... plans to complete coverage of 98% of the country's population, equivalent to 92% of municipalities including Easter Island, within the next few weeks. ...

Magician David Copperfield finds fountain of youth using moai as reference

Magician Copperfield's Warehouse Raided
Actress Archives, NY - Oct 19, 2007
There is Stonehenge in England, I drew a line from Stonehenge to the statues in Easter Island in Chile and another line between the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt ...

COP-A-FEEL
New York Post, NY - Oct 20, 2007
... he had discovered "the fountain of youth" in his private paradise after drawing lines between Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Easter Island statues. ...

Ecosystems and Economics forum/Rapa Nui

Veteran ABC News Science Correspondent Ned Potter moderates panel ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Oct 24, 2007
The lessons from history are daunting: From Babylonia to Easter Island, thriving civilizations fell as they destroyed the natural environments that ...