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	Easter Island: land of mystery (1)
		Easter Island’s culture was founded by the legendary god-king Hotu Matua (‘prolific father’), who is said to have lived on a remnant of Hiva called Maori, in a locality called Marae Renga.
		Another name for Easter Island was Mate-ki-te-rangi, ‘eyes looking at heaven’ – a reference to the fact that, when their eyes were fitted, the moai seemed to be looking upwards at the sky.
		Flenley and Bahn, The Enigmas of Easter Island, pp.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/easter1.htm (5930 words)

	Digest1
		Easter Island, as it is known in the English speaking world, has a number of other names by which it is also known.
		Easter Island sits at the juncture of three tectonic plates, the Nazca plate to the east, the Pacific plate to the west and the Antarctic plate to the south.
		Eventually in 1966, the troops withdrew and the island became a fully incorporated part of Chile, the restrictions preventing the islanders from leaving Hanga Roa were finally were removed and free elections held, even a special "Easter Island Law (16442)" was enacted, giving a series of benefits to spur development.
	www.waymarker.co.uk /ml/rapanui/digest1.htm (7374 words)

	Easter Island/Rapa Nui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Easter Island, called Rapanui by the natives today, is at the southeastern end of the Polynesian Triangle, with Hawaii at the top and New Zealand at the southwest.
		At some time in the distant past (dates are very controversial) the legendary king Hotu Matua left his homeland in the Marquesas and landed with a party of settlers at Anakena Beach on Rapa Nui's northeast coast.
		Although 90% of the island is rolling, rocky grassland, reforestation projects planting mostly eucalyptus have brought trees back to 5% of the land surface.
	www.sergeking.com /Rapanui/rapa01.html (496 words)

	Easter Island
		An area on the western coast is reserved by the government for the indigenous population; the remainder is used as grazing land for sheep and cattle.
		Easter Island is of considerable archaeological importance both as the richest site of the megaliths (see Megalithic Monuments) of the Pacific island groups and as the only source of evidence of a form of writing in Polynesia.
		Previous archaeological and botanical evidence suggested that the island's original inhabitants were of South American origin and that the ancestors of the present Polynesian population traveled in canoes from the Marquesas Islands, massacred the inhabitants, and made the island their home.
	www.occultopedia.com /e/easter_island.htm (2874 words)

	The Lessons of Easter Island
		Easter Island therefore became a `mystery' and a wide variety of theories were advanced to explain its history.
		The settlers on Easter Island brought only chickens and rats with them and they soon found that the climate was too severe for semi-tropical plants such as breadfruit and coconut and extremely marginal for the usual mainstays of their diet, taro and yam.
		The Easter Islanders, aware that they were almost completely isolated from the rest of the world, must surely have realised that their very existence depended on the limited resources of a small island.
	www.eco-action.org /dt/eisland.html (3167 words)

	Easter Island: land of mystery (3)
		Easter Island has at least 313 ceremonial platforms or ahu – open-air temple sanctuaries erected in honour of the gods and deified ancestors.
		She goes on to say that the stone relics on Easter Island are in the cyclopean style, and have been compared to the temple of Pachacamac in Peru and the ruins of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia.
		Easter Island was also taken possession of in this manner by some Atlanteans; who, having escaped from the cataclysm which befell their own land, settled on that remnant of Lemuria only to perish thereon, when destroyed in one day by its volcanic fires and lava.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/easter3.htm (8956 words)

	CANOE Travel - South America - Mystery Island
		Easter Island's first settlers are believed to have arrived between AD 400-500.
		They called the island Te Pito O Te Henua meaning the navel of the world; it was given the name Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who was the first European to set foot on the island, on Easter Sunday in 1722.
		According to island traditions, the moai were an integral part of a complex religion based on ancestor worship.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/SouthAmerica/2003/09/09/180524.html (1214 words)

	JS Online: Intriguing stone giants lure visitors to Easter Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Easter Island folklore holds that moai at Ahu Akivi represent the Polynesian explorers who found the island.
		Easter Island may be remote, but it's very easy to get to.
		But what makes Easter Island so special is not just what you see here, it's also how you feel here.
	www.jsonline.com /dd/destnat/aug00/color-travel081800.asp (1536 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Easter Island
		Easter Island is one of the most lonely islands on the planet.
		Easter Island's capital city, could really just be called a village, and is the only one on the island.
		Originally, the island was covered in a lush palm forest, however this supply of lumber was readily used for construction of boats and houses, and to assist with moving the Moai.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A771914 (1350 words)

	TeHenua or Easter Island
		The Easter islanders were easy prey for 19th century slave traders which depreciated even more their precarious culture, knowledge of the past, and skills of the ancestors.
		The island was the eighth, or last, island in the dim twilight of the rising sun.
		The king was sitting on the stone under which the skull was buried.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_isla_pasqua_1.htm (5798 words)

	Article - Easter Island - Land of Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ahu of Easter Island vary in length -- the longest one is 300 feet, while some that hold one moai are only several feet long.
		The island's volcanic rock from which they were carved is softer and lighter than most other rock, but even the smallest moai weighs several tons.
		And about the wars that once raged on the island between the long-ears (the ruling noble clans who had their ear lobes elongated) and the short-ears.
	www.lightnet.co.uk /informer/sacredsites/20000625.htm (1538 words)

	Talk History Forum - Easter island, fools' paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The great mystery of Easter Island that struck all early visitors was not just that these colossal statues stood in such a tiny and remote corner of the world, but that the stones seemed to have been put there without tackle, as if set down from the sky.
		Pollen studies of the island’s crater lakes have shown that it was once well watered and green, with rich volcanic soil supporting thick woods of the Chilean wine palm, a fine timber that can grow as tall as an oak.
		Perhaps it began with the shattering of the island’s solitude by strangers in floating castles of unimaginable wealth and menace.
	www.talk-history.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1235 (2097 words)

	Easter Island historical flags (Chile) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The bird on the Easter Island Flag is the legendary Manu Tara Bird, the source of the Bird Man Cult on the island.
		Jean-Onésime Dutrou-Bornier was the king of Easter Island between 1869 and 1876.
		Dutrou-Bornier is recognized as a king by a part of the islanders, and hoisted his flag: orange, with an outline of a man-bird.
	www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/cl-05iph.html (640 words)

	Easter Island Foundation Publications
		Although Loti and Pinart were on the island a very short time, they still managed to see a great deal, and described the island as it was at that early date.
		It is a must, both for Easter Island enthusiasts and those looking for the single book that has a thorough and lavish introduction to Easter Island history and culture.
		The authors provide evidence that Easter Island was once covered with a subtropical palm forest, but that these palms were extinguished roughly 500 years ago after they were cut down and the terrain was burned (in keeping with traditional farming techniques).
	islandheritage.org /eifpubs.html (2610 words)

	Elusive Easter Island - The World & I Online Magazine
		The closest inhabited spot, Pitcairn Island, where the mutineers of the HMS Bounty settled in 1789, is 1,260 miles away.
		Known to its near 3,000 Polynesian inhabitants as Rapa Nui but to the rest of the world as Easter Island, this tiny Chilean island, 14 miles long and at no point more than 7 miles wide, is the land of mysterious stone statues called moai.
		Many inhabitants of the island believe, however, that the statues were moved and erected by mana, a magical force.
	www.worldandi.com /public/2001/March/easter.html (584 words)

	On the Inscriptions of the Sydney and Avignon Rei-miro by Sergei V. Rjabchikov
		It is a white shadow/image of the king'.
		'The king (6) -- the shadow/image -- the tribal union Te Kena of the Miru tribe (7) -- the shadow/image'.
		The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island.
	rongorongo.chat.ru /artrr6.htm (1345 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Mystery of Easter Island (Mystic Travellers Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the early 1900's Katherine Routledge sailed from England to Easter Island on the schooner 'Mana', leading a group of experts on the first modern day scientific expedition to uncover the secrets of the island.
		Certainly she was adventurous for a woman of the early part of the century; just getting to the island in a yacht ranks as a mildly swashbuckling achievement.
		The Mystery of Easter Island was originally published in 1919, based upon the research of an English lady, Katherine Routledge, who lived on the island in 1914-15.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0932813488?v=glance (978 words)

	Hotels in Easter Island - Easter Island hotel reservations & reviews. Easter Island travel guide and hotel list. ...
		Easter Island hotels and resorts reservation guide - the definitive guide to Easter Island accommodation.
		The Easter Island hotels and resorts guide provides a brief summary, customer ratings and reviews for hotels or resorts.
		For detailed hotel information or to reserve a hotel or resort in Easter Island, please select a hotel or resort and let asiahotels.com be your Easter Island travel agent.
	www.asiahotels.com /hl/easter_island-chile.asp (249 words)

	Easter Island & Machu Picchu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SANTIAGO-EASTER ISLAND : Transfer to the airport for flight to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island.
		EASTER ISLAND : A morning tour will begin with a visit to the archaeological zone of Tahai.
		EASTER ISLAND : Our morning tour will take you to the southernmost volcano of the island: Rano Kau.
	www.gonewiththewindtravel.com /d/3135957_2643.htm (919 words)

	Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island: Tradition Regarding Fish Hooks. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the time, of Atua Ure Rangi, the Seventeenth king, the image-makers were exempt from all other kinds of work, and the fishermen were taxed for their chief support.
		The fish-hooks in use were made of stone, so hard that many months of chipping and grinding were required to fashion one fit for service, and the most perfect hooks, even in the hands of expert fishermen, permitted the escape of a large proportion of the fish.
		A sudden attack was finally planned upon Urevaiaus while at work upon the fishing-grounds; in effort to preserve his secret the youth lost his life; but the new form of hooks was found in his boat and the invention became known to the fraternity.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/ei/ei57.htm (473 words)

	Easter Island in 2002 ( ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some still dream of independence but they know that it is not possible because the island survives thanks to the Chilean government and to tourism when it is healthy, which is not the case presently.
		The island was once covered with great forests of "toromiro" trees that were cut down by the Rapa Nui to make the scaffolding and rollers they needed to move their moai at the peak of their building frenzy in the early 17th century.
		It is the largest on the island with its 15 moai along on the two hundred metre platform.
	berclo.net /page02/02en-pascua.html (1699 words)

	Easter Island Statue Birdbath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Easter Island is one of the most bizarre and questionable islands in the world.
		Over centuries, the island became inhabited by a remarkable society developed in isolation and for reasons unknown, carved giant statues made from volcanic rock.
		This lightweight, sturdy polyethylene reproduction statue was modeled after the world's largest collection of statues produced more than 18 centuries ago located off the coast of Chile in Easter Island.
	www.envirolet.com /easterisland.html (239 words)

	Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island Index
		Easter Island is a surreal landscape, with its giant stone heads and undeciphered rongo-rongo script--the only writing system invented in the Pacific islands.
		This account of an expedition to Easter Island in the late nineteenth century will have modern social scientists (as well as indigenous rights activists) gritting their teeth.
		Also of interest is the version of the Easter Island migration legend quoted here, which claims that they came from the direction of the rising sun.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/ei (434 words)

	Easter Island Visitor’s Guide - Page 22 — Rapanui Glossary
		the last king of Rapanui; he was captured by Peruvian slave traders and died working in the guano fields of Peru
		the uninhabited center of the island, where spirits were said to dwell
		All information listed on this and other EIF web pages has been compiled through EIF's own exhaustive research and experience; it has not been taken from other sites or sources.
	www.islandheritage.org /vg/vg22.html (745 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I went to Kings Island on Easter and noticed the log flume ride closed down, it wasn't on the park map either, and their were signs saying "A New Adventure Awaits in 2002" or something like that?
		Otherwise, Kings Island was a really great place to visit and because it was raining and Easter, there was practically no waiting in lines at all.
		read the Cincinnati post.....Kings Island states that they have had enough of the coaster wars and will be modeling themselves to be more like Disney and Universal studios with rides that are geared to the environment in which their parks are located.
	www.coasterbuzz.com /2003-29-964674.htm (1537 words)

	Huntington gets exclusive deal with Kings Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The deal will allow Huntington to serve one of the Midwest's largest and most-popular theme parks, generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in new revenue annually and expand on a niche marketing goal to offer its services to amusement parks nationally.
		The agreement also means that Kings Island will sever banking relationships with Fifth Third, Provident and PNC.
		Annual attendance at Kings Island was 3.4 million last year, according to figures from Amusement Business trade publication.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/04/09/fin_huntington_gets.html (220 words)

	Wikinfo \| Lists of incumbents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kings of Israel and Judah, see Kingdom of Israel
		Kings of the Isle of Man and the Isles
		Dukes of Savoy, Kings of Sardinia, and Kings of Italy from 1861
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Lists_of_incumbents (404 words)

	Chile and Easter Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I have used several Lonely Planet Guides over the last few years, but the best by far is the guide to Chile.
		I cannot comment on its usefulness for travellers visiting Easter Island, but for mainland Chile,as well as Chilean and Argentine Tierra del Fuego it is a fantastically accurate, well considered travellers handbook.
		Maps are clear and easy to use, reccomended hotels and restaurants are almost invariably good, and the attention to detail in descriptions of even the smallest towns strikes the right balance providing good information for travellers on varying budgets,and with a wide range of interests.
	www.travelingo.org /books/174059116X (358 words)

	Thousands of NAMES OF THE PACIFIC for your dog or pet from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a New Zealand Territory and many Cook Islanders now live in New Zealand.
		The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands.
		These islands are also sometimes collectively called Oceania, and are traditionally grouped into three: (1) Melanesia, (2) Micronesia, and (3) Polynesia.
	www.lowchensaustralia.com /names/pacificnames.htm (876 words)

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