Captain Cook's voyages

The Complete Guide To: The travels of Captain Cook
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - Oct 24, 2007
On his return voyage, in 1774 he landed at the Friendly Islands (Tonga), Easter Island, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. ...

Book relates Katherine Routledge's Rapa Nui expedition

At the York Public Library
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Oct 24, 2007
... schizophrenic Katherine Routledge's controversial expedition to Easter Island, and Teddy Roosevelt's journey through the Amazon after his presidency. ...

Migration to Rapa Nui

Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region
Science Daily (press release) - October 10, 2007
... that of the migration to Oceania, which began about 3500 years BP and culminated in the settlement of Hawaii and Easter Island by 2000-1000 years BP. ...

"Bashed, bruised and beautiful" Rapa Nui

BASHED, BRUISED AND BEAUTIFUL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHILE’S EASTER ...
Santiago Times (subscription), Chile - Sep 16, 200717, 2007)
(Ed. Note: Traveling to Easter Island? Our friend Paul Davies just did, and his essay below should help orient any would-be traveler to one of the world’s most remote islands.

Ancient Rapanui: "lab" island civilization

Dishing dirt on top soil
News & Observer, NC - Aug 18, 2007
Remember Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and its enigmatic stone heads? In hair-raising fashion, Montgomery details how colonists arrived, exploited the fragile ...

Rapa Nui's mysteries

A summer of statues
Scientist, UK - Aug 17, 2007
It's one of the mysteries of Easter Island, which budding scientists have flown halfway across the world to solve. During an excavation project last summer, ...

General article about Rapa Nui

The stone secrets of Easter Island
The 900 Moai stones erected on a treeless island give the place its identity - and claim to be one of the new 7 Wonders of the World
Jane Chambers
Photography from Reuters
Times OnlineJuly 4, 2007








Most of the men are over six foot tall and due to a life style of fishing, surfing, farming and building work, they have the kind of physic an avid gym goer would be envious of. And many of the women could happily enter a Miss Universe competition. And then there is the dancing - men and women think nothing of shaking their booty and giving come hither looks in their traditional dances, in a way which is completely impossible for the average Briton to emulate.

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Moai, Eco-destruction, Brief History of Rapa Nui

How did Easter Island's ancient statues lead to the destruction of an entire ecosystem?
By By Steve Connor
Independent
Published: 04 July 2007

The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such massive edifices – each weighing many tons – without the help of wheels, cranes, machines, metal tools or draft animals?

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Evidence of Polynesians in Americas before Europeans

Chicken bone proves Polynesians visited Americas before Europeans
Canada.com, Canada - Jun 8, 2007
... vast distances between Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Easter Island - the eastern extreme of Polynesia, about 3600 kilometres from the coast of Chile.

Chicken bones in Chile hint at early settlers
Houston Chronicle, United States - Jun 18, 2007
... far-ranging canoes had by then not only populated the Pacific as far east as Hawaii and Easter Island, but also had on occasion reached the Americas. ...

Polynesians beat Europeans to the Americas?

And this little chicken went to South America
Marlborough Express, New Zealand - Jun 6, 2007
Dr Matisoo-Smith said most experts agreed now that Polynesian voyaging within the Hawaii-Easter Island-New Zealand triangle was purposeful. ...

Pre-Columbian Polynesian contacts?
ScienceBlogs - Jun 6, 2007
Frankly, on a priori grounds this is a no brainer, if Polynesians could make to Easter Island it seems implausible that continental South America would be ...

On the horizon: news from the frontiers of science
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Jun 6, 2007
He sought to prove that Stone-Age seafarers could have colonized Easter Island from the east. "He had it backwards," Ms. Storey, a PhD candidate at the ...

More about Polynesian discovery of Americas before Europeans?

Polynesians may have introduced poultry
ScienceAlert, Australia - Jun 6, 2007
... conclusively found the bones followed the same DNA sequence as prehistoric Polynesian chickens from Tonga, Samoa, Niue, Hawaii and Easter Island. ...

Anthropologists unearth Polynesian contact with South America
ABC Online, Australia - Jun 6, 2007
LISA MATISOO-SMITH: So the result shows that Polynesians probably continued sailing eastwards, beyond Easter Island and reached the shores of South America ...

Chicken 'takeaway' links Polynesians to America
ABC Science Online, Australia - Jun 6, 2007
"Then they had similar sequences to chicken bones from sites in Niue, Easter Island and Hawaii, so we concluded that indeed, they did look like they were ...

And this little chicken went to South America
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Jun 6, 2007
Dr Matisoo-Smith said most experts agreed now that Polynesian voyaging within the Hawaii-Easter Island-New Zealand triangle was purposeful. ...

Chicken bone history clue
SBS - World News Australia, Australia - Jun 6, 2007
But it was probably not much earlier, given the timing of settlement of Hawaii and Easter Island, the closest Polynesian settlements to America. ...

'Columbus was beaten to South America'
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia - Jun 6, 2007
But it was probably not much earlier, given the timing of settlement of Hawaii and Easter Island, the closest Polynesian settlements to America. ...

Ancient bones rewrite history
TVNZ, New Zealand - Jun 6, 2007
"Polynesians probably continued sailing eastwards beyond Easter Island and reached the shores of South America and introduced the chicken to South America ...

Chicken bone beats Columbus
iAfrica.com, South Africa - Jun 6, 2007
But it was probably not much earlier, given the timing of settlement of Hawaii and Easter Island, the closest Polynesian settlements to America. ...

Did Polynesians discover Americas before Europeans?

Polynesians beat Columbus to the Americas
New Scientist (subscription), UK - Jun 4, 2007
However, this date range does coincide with dates for the colonization of the easternmost islands of Polynesia, including Pitcairn and Easter Island. ...

Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus
LiveScience.com, NY - Jun 4, 2007
They continued gradually eastwards, but were never thought to have journeyed further than Easter Island, about 2000 miles off the coast of continental Chile ...

First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia
New York Times, NY - Jun 4, 2007
... far-ranging canoes had by then not only populated the Pacific as far east as Hawaii and Easter Island, but also had on occasion reached the Americas. ...

Chicken bones say Polynesians beat Europeans to New World
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jun 4, 2007
The sequences were very similar to those of chickens from Hawaii, also about 5000 miles distant, and Easter Island, located about 2500 miles away. ...

Polynesians beat Columbus to the Americas by well over a century
South Asian Women's Forum, India - Jun 4, 2007
... to have reached the Americas, since they probably traveled eastward from Easter Island, which was first settled as late as AD 1200,” Storey added. ...

Polynesians beat Spaniards to South America, study shows
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jun 5, 2007
The sequences were very similar to those of chickens from Hawaii, also about 5000 miles distant, and Easter Island, about 2500 miles away. ...

Chicken-bone clue points to early voyages to Chile
Honolulu Advertiser, HI - Jun 5, 2007
... and the nations of Polynesia — whose boundaries have been described as a triangle with its points at Hawai'i, New Zealand and Easter Island or Rapa Nui. ...

Chicken leg proves Columbus was far from first
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Jun 5, 2007
"Easter Island is hard to hit, it's a tiny spot," Ms Storey said. "They knew how to sail against the wind. They could go east, and get back west." ...

Polynesians answer riddle of how chook crossed ocean
The Age, Australia - Jun 5, 2007
... far-ranging canoes had by then not only populated the Pacific as far east as Hawaii and Easter Island, but also had on occasion reached the Americas. ...

The Chicken Connection to the Americas
Technocrat.net, MA - Jun 5, 2007
The DNA sequence is found in chickens from Tonga, Samoa, Niue, Easter Island and Hawaii,” Matisoo-Smith said. “If we had to guess, we would say it was ...

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 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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Rapa Nui mentioned in article about kite history

Come fly a kite
by David Khorram - MDSpecial to the Saipan Tribune
Saipan Tribune
Friday, April 13, 2007

After its appearance in China, the kite migrated to Korea, Japan, Myanmar (Burma), India, Arabia, and North Africa, then farther south into the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, and the islands of Oceania as far east as Easter Island. Since kites made of leaves have been flown in Malaya and the South Seas from time immemorial, the kite could also have been invented independently in that region.

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History of and tourist tips for Rapa Nui

Easter Island
By: Valarie D'Elia
News 10 Now
4/8/2007 5:00 AM










The main town, Hanga Roa, seems to be populated by as many dogs as people and is where most of the hotels and restaurants are situated. The post office offers the ultimate souvenir, a passport stamp that is worth every cent of the Chilean dollar.

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Rapa Nui's history a "hair-raising tale"

Easter Island's environment drama
We can avoid environmental disaster if we're smart enough to act now
Shelley Willson, Special to the Sun
Montreal Gazette
Apr 6, 2007














Picture a lush, green little island, settled in the 5th century AD by a handful of neighbouring migrants. It was Eden itself with tropical trees, fertile soil, pure spring water and surrounded by abundant seafood.

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Rapa Nui, "mysterious island of Easter"

The mysterious island of Easter
Montreal Gazette (subscription), Canada - Apr 6, 2007
Easter Island fascinates the human race the way Nessie or Stonehenge do. Located more than 3500 km west of continental Chile, it is home to the moai statues ...

The mysterious island of Easter
Vancouver Sun (subscription), Canada - Apr 6, 2007
A picture of some of the 390 abandoned huge statues (moais in Rapa Nui language), in the hillside of the Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island. ...

Pope John Paul II greeting Rapanui in Valparaiso, Chile

He did not only strengthen us
Anna Cichoblazinska talks to Prof. Jan Ryn, psychiatrist, specialist in mountain medicine, former Polish Ambassador to Chile and Bolivia.
ANNA CICHOBLAZINSKA
Sunday - Catholic Magazine
8 March 2007

He was the only Pope who greeted the inhabitants of Easter Island during the meeting with the youth in Valparaiso.

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"Easter Island endures and visitors are welcomed"

The island of statues
By Doreen Kerby - Travel writer
BCNG Portals Page
Feb 18 2007

Of great interest is the Mercado, where local artisans sell a variety of handicrafts, including excellent carvings in wood and stone. Many items sold here are not available on the mainland so this is the place to buy.

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