Easter Island, Chile in Pictures

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Sunset at Ahu Akivi at the foot of Mount Terevaka.

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Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku, a 15-moai ahu excavated and restored in the 1990's by a Japanese research team after a cyclone knocked them over in the 1960's.

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Six of the fifteen moai at Ahu Tongariki.

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Moai at Ahu Tongariki.

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Ahu Akivi, one of the few inland ahu, with the only seven moai facing the ocean.

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Outer slope of the Rano Raraku volcano, the quarry of the Moais with many uncompleted statues.

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Tukuturi, an unusual bearded kneeling moai at Easter Island.

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Ahu Te Pito Kura, the world's navel, a perfectly round stone considered the world's navel by the Rapa Nuians.

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Petroglyph of Makemake with two birdmen, carved from red scoria.

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Fish petroglyph found near Ahu Tongariki.

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Rongorongo writing on historical timber.

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Moto Nui, Island of the Birdman cult, seen from the Orongo village with Birdman petroglyphs.

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Panorama of the Rano Kao volcanic crater. In this crater, much of the original Easter Island Flora is preserved.

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Panorama of Anakena, Easter Island with two Ahu: the one in the foreground has one Moai; the one in the background has several.

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Storia Illustrata, year 1969 Rapa Nui paintings of Tangata Manu (Birdmen) Frigate Birds in the "Cave of the Men Eaters".

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The first known painting of Easter Island in 1775 by William Hodges "A View of the Monuments of Easter Island, Rapanui"

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Easter Island (1880).