Easter Island is the most secluded corner of our planet, is a small piece of land, which is located in the Pacific Ocean and away from the nearest inhabited island Pitkeyr at 2600 km.

Natives call their island Rapa Nui. A well-known around the world, he received the name because it was open on Easter Sunday 1722 Dutchman Jacob Roggevenom.

Camaya-known mystery of Easter Island, which for hundreds of years trying to unravel the researchers - a giant stone statues, moai. These mysterious monoliths were carved out of petrified volcanic ash.
A total of 887 statues of the island, 397 of them are located near the volcano Rano Raraku, a crater is produced and all the rest of the moai.

They also found a lot of unfinished statues and more abandoned hacked, that suggests the idea of the sudden cessation of work due to some major cataclysm.


On the island there are two types of moai. "Giants" of 10 feet tall, hatless, fart, they are mostly on the slopes of the volcano Rano Raraku, the neck in sedimentary rocks.
A total of 887 statues of the island, 397 of them are located near the volcano Rano Raraku, a crater is produced and all the rest of the moai.

And the four-meter "dwarfs", hoisted on pedestals-ahu along the ocean coast, in the original headdresses. They look younger than his 10-meter family, and their faces are not as long.
Then begin the theory and legend. One of the surviving tradition says that once ruled the island for people with long earlobes. They were subordinate to korotkouhie. At this time in full moai were built, ruthlessly cut down the palm forest, while the environment of the island has not been brought to its present sorry state. The population grew, there was nothing, not even enough wood to make boats, cannibalism began ... In short, korotkouhie broke and overthrew the elite.
Most scholars agree with this version of the sunset era of the founders of the mysterious giant stone statues. Some people even complemented the overall picture detail. Thus, it is believed that korotkouhimi commoners were natives of Polynesia, and the long-eared elite - travelers from South America, who arrived on an island somewhere in the 800, in some way for many years been able to seize power over the natives.
Found a scientific explanation and many abandoned chopped in the crater Rano Raraku. Experts believe that the tools worked. And as to produce a new stone tools much easier than the old grind, dispose of your old master of his ax. So they gathered for hundreds of years of pretty.
And the unfinished statues remain the same because, cutting them from a relatively soft volcanic tuff, masters stumbled on a solid rock, to overcome that they could not afford.
But as the stone giants were delivered to the right place? Local residents say anything definite on this subject can not, moreover, that there were statues of themselves. In their language even has a word which means the slow movement without legs. But what they meant is unknown.
And then there was the theory of motion of a vertical rotating waddle. So even move the heavy drums and cylinders. Successfully conducted field tests of this method, all were placed in places: with the help of ropes and short wooden levers confident moai "walked" forward.
But there is still one the most fantastic version. Its adherents believe that Easter Island was once part of Lemuria, the legendary, and with it disappeared into the depths of the ocean.
Many centuries later, as a result of some natural disasters ancient volcano with a 10-meter moai on its slopes again appeared above the water. And the first settlers of the island, trying to recreate the giant statues on the neck gone into sedimentary rocks, began to cut a 4-meter "dwarfs"