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EASTER ISLAND ARQUEOLOGICAL IMAGES (http://www.globalserve.net/%7Eyuku/)
This webpage features different theories about the origin of the statues that surround Easter Island, based on scientific anthropologic discoveries. Also include pictures and photograps that show the arqueological excavations.
IORANA-RAPA NUI/EASTER ISLAND (http://www.iorana.net/artics08%5Fpin2%5Fgr.htm)
This webpage provides historical information of the first visitors that Easter Island had at the begining of 1700s. This wenpage the diary of the traveller Mr. Alphonse Pinart in 1877. In Spanish.
THE MOAI RESTRATION PROJECT (http://www.tadano.co.jp/ihq/moai/index.htm)
The Moai Restration Project Easter Island seems only a solitary islet in the South Pacific, and yet is so much world-famous for its gigantic stone staues as to be described as one of the Seven Wonderds of the World. By whom were built such numerous pieces of monument in which ages and for what purpose?The Moai statues remain a mystery even to this date. This webpage deals with a project of restoration of the Stone Statues(Moais)by a japanesse organization.
TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP: EASTER ISLAND (http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/oldmap.html)
This is a digital image of the topography of Easter Island.
THE UNMUSEUM EASTER ISLAND (http://www.unmuseum.org/easteri.htm)
The Chilling Tale of Easter Island, about 2,000 miles from the nearest continent, and 1,400 miles from the next closest inhabited isle, lies a tiny chunk of land only 65 square miles in size. It is the most isolated, inhabited place in the world, nevertheless it has been studied since the begining of the 60's with increasing interest and the scientists are still lost in the origin of the big stone statues(moais), that suround all the coast line of the Island. Easter Island. When the explorer Jacob Roggeveen found it on April 5, 1722 (Easter day, henceforth the name), the natives, numbering about 2,000, had no idea that other peoples, beside themselves, existed. This is not surprising since.
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