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. ...

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, ...

Rapa Nui among world's sacred sites

The world's most sacred sites
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - October 10, 2007
The hundred of carved heads that adorn Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were in use as early as 500 BC. They are said to represent an ideology of male, ...

Lowbrow moai in Vancouver

12 tikis to Midnite
24 Hours Vancouver, Canada - Sep 12, 2007
The local lowbrow artist and owner of Lucky Red Gallery (Union Street at Main) thought of everything, including red Plexiglas lit from behind to look like lava flow, a nine-foot styrofoam Easter Island head and a reconstructed fridge that looks like a ...

Moai to be topic at October meeting in Huntsville, Canada

Geographer to share travel observations
Huntsville Forester, Canada - Sep 12, 2007
by Rick Stronks STILL A MYSTERY: These enigmatic statues on Easter Island will be just one of the topics discussed by Trisha Healey at the nature club’s October meeting.

Rapa Nui "fascinates the human race"

The mysterious island of Easter
Montreal Gazette, Canada - Aug 28, 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 - considered one of the world's greatest mysteries - is a finalist in the new Seven Wonders of ...

Rapa Nui visitors drawn to moai and natural beauty

Easter Island a mix of adventure, history, awe
Canada.com, Canada - Aug 28, 2007
This book, about the voyage to prove the possibility of settlement of Easter Island by peoples from South America, made for fascinating reading. ...

Rapa Nui visit all about the moais

A Vist to Easter Island: Moais and More Moais
About - News & Issues, NY - Aug 27, 2007
It's heads and tales on exotic Easter Island (philly.com): "On first impression, the statues creeped me out. They seemed to emanate bad vibes, ...

Iowans visit Rapa Nui

Iowans on the Go: Easter Island's figures stand test of time
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Aug 26, 2007
By ROWENA HARDINGER Only twice the size of Manhattan, Easter Island is a mere dot on the map of the South Pacific. Mysteries have surrounded the massive ...

Travel article about Rapa Nui

It's heads and tales on exotic Easter Island
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 26, 2007
EASTER ISLAND, Chile - Heads, heads. I couldn't wait to see the famous heads of Easter Island. The first ones I spotted were from the plane - black slabs ...

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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Satellite imagery used to help understand moai complexities

Satellite Imagery for Easter Island Statue Renovation Project
Monique Romeijn
prMac
Jun 17, 2007

Researchers and archaeologist used satellite Remote Sensing and GPS technology to locate, describe and understand the statues complexities and to supply historical information to the Rapa Nui community and public agencies whom are responsible of the preservation and conservation of the statues.

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President Bachelet visits Rapa Nui

Chile president makes rare appearance with Easter Island leaders
The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, has made a rare appearance alongside Easter Island leaders in Santiago to promote the ancient stone statues of Rapa Nui.
Radio New Zealand International
Posted at 07:19 on 14 June, 2007 UTC

The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, has made a rare appearance alongside Easter Island leaders in Santiago to promote the ancient stone statues of Rapa Nui.

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Visit to Rapa Nui is "stepping into a new dimension"

'Navel to the world'
Photography by Jane Wooldridge/MCT
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
STLtoday
05/27/2007










Even if you’ve read the books and seen the films, visiting Easter Island is stepping into a new dimension.

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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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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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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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Rapanui among "world's best islands"

The World’s 10 Best Islands
Lovetripper.com
Apr 16, 2007

Although located on one of the most isolated places on the planet, the stone icons known as moai which guard the austere beauty of Easter Island guarantee that the visitors to this paradise never feel alone.

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