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	Rano Raraku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on Easter Island, Chile.
		Rano Raraku is divided into 5 archaeological zones, and as of 1981 a total of 397 statues were inventoried on the interior and exterior slopes and in the exterior quarries.
		Rano Raraku is a visual record of statue design vocabulary and technological innovation, and is a precious and important part of the Rapanui patrimony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rano_Raraku (299 words)

	A Directory of Wetlands in Oceania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rano Kau and the other two freshwater lakes on Easter Island are of considerable interest because of their extreme isolation.
		Rano Aroi and the other two freshwater lakes of Easter Island are of considerable interest because of their extreme isolation.
		Rano Raraku and the other two freshwater lakes of Easter Island are of considerable interest because of their extreme isolation.
	www.wetlands.org /oldsite/inventory&/OceaniaDir/ChileanTerr.htm (2048 words)

	Easter Island: land of mystery (2)
		Rano Raraku contains numerous now empty niches where statues have been hacked out, as well as 397 figures visible on the outer and inner slopes illustrating every phase of the carving process.
		Routledge wrote: ‘Rano Raraku was therefore approached by at least three magnificent avenues, on each of which the pilgrim was greeted at intervals by a stone giant guarding the way to the sacred mountain.’
		In addition, there are signs that some of the statues on the southeastern side of Rano Raraku may have been on a fourth road along that side beneath the cliff, and a platform on the south coast was approached by an avenue with 5 or 6 statues.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/easter2.htm (5962 words)

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		Rano Raraku is an extinct volcano, where the moais — some say 1000 — were carved from the 5th to the 13th centuries.
		The average size of a moai on the island away from Rano Raraku (the stone mountain where the moais were carved) was four meters high and 12.5 tons.
		This enormous moai stands in front of Rano Raraku, the mountain where all of the moais were carved.
	www.jimrogers.com /content/stories/story_20010630.html (873 words)

	Moai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		About 95% of the 887 moai known to date were carved out of compressed volcanic ash at Rano Raraku, where 394 moai still remain visible today.
		The quarries in Rano Raraku appear to have been abandoned abruptly, with many incomplete statues still in situ.
		Practically all of the completed moai that were moved from Rano Raraku and erected upright on ceremonial platforms were subsequently toppled by native islanders in the period after construction ceased.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Statues_of_Easter_Island (728 words)

	Rano Raraku - Easter Island
		Rano Raraku's cliffs and slopes are littered with statues.
		The moai at the foot of the Rano Raraku quarry eternally wait transport to their intended ahu.
		William Mulloy at the foot of the Rano Raraku moai quarry.
	www.islandheritage.org /pg/rrfotos.html (413 words)

	Easter Island Statue Project: Rano Raraku Mapping
		This is the same projection as was used for the previous survey by the University of Chile team and, therefore, provides consistent data. We established four base stations in Rano Raraku on the south side of the volcano and marked each by steel pegs placed level with the ground.
		The final purpose of our map, other than to complete Rano Raraku site documentation, is to act as a coordinating and organizing tool for the interactive presentation of the EISP image and statue inventory databases. This goal includes, whenever possible, clarifying the historical and archaeological contexts of past excavations in Rano Raraku.
		Volcanic tuffs, including those of the type found in Rano Raraku, are extremely vulnerable to natural weathering as well as to human destruction. Various substances have been investigated as possible stone consolidates.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /ioa/eisp/history/rrmap/RRmapping.htm (1922 words)

	Easter Island Tour - Rano Raraku
		At Rano Raraku the statues face away from the crater.
		The Moai that you see half buried on the sides of the volcanic cone of Rano Raraku were pieces waiting to be transported to ahu around the island.
		Giving their ingenuity and obsession, I believe they would have eventually.The slopes of Rano Raraku are filled with eye-less moai - several hundred circle the crater in various stages of construction.
	www.mysteriousplaces.com /Easter_Island/html/site1.html (722 words)

	HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lianas (creepers) were hanging from the trees, and Rano Raraku was covered by palms.
		This is the only explanation for such a great artistic activity in the quarries of Rano Raraku where there is a relatively soft rock composed of lava, sand and stones.
		The chief whose servant found it received the name bird-man. He was tapu, had to remain in strict seclusion for a year in a house on the slope of Rano Raraku, and it seems very probable that he was considered as a representative or perhaps reincarnation of God- Makemake.
	www.alsindependence.com /Historical_Background_of_Easter_Island.htm (2888 words)

	The Lessons of Easter Island--Clive Ponting
		The statues were carved, using only obsidian stone tools, at the quarry at Rano Raraku.
		The cause of the collapse and the key to understanding the 'mysteries' of Easter Island was massive environmental degradation brought on by deforestation of the whole island.
		When the first Europeans visited the island in the eighteenth century it was completely treeless apart from a handful of isolated specimens at the bottom of the deepest extinct volcano crater of Rano Kao.
	www.primitivism.com /easter-island.htm (2931 words)

	Easter Island Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Of these, the Crater is by far teh most interesting as it's possible to see statues in all levels of creation, spanning from finished ones on their way down on the outside of the crater to roughly made "scetches", still clinging themselves to the volcanic rock on the inside.
		It is obvious all the moai on this huge ahu are different and small, short, large, long, thick and thin statues stand on the biggest ahu of the island (200 meters long).
		Rano Raraku is a wonderful experience, here a picture of the main entrance.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/South_America/Chile/Easter_Island/Things_To_Do-Easter_Island-BR-13.html (754 words)

	Sam Low / Rapa Nui: The Navel of the World
		The wind sweeps across a thousand miles of empty ocean and ascends over the island's eastern shore, the ancient statues at Hanga Nui and the slopes of Rano Raraku crater where the statues had been carved.
		Rano Kau is an almost perfect circle - a caldera formed by the most recent eruption.
		At the bottom of Rano Kau, a lake is blanketed by totorareeds though which still waters rise like a dark mirror.
	pvs.hawaii.org /samrapanui.html (3744 words)

	Rano Raraku opening page
		Rano Raraku is another dormant vocano but totally different to Rano Kau.
		The lake, beautiful in its own right, is well worth a visit but the real reason to visit Rano Raraku is to see the Moais.
		From above one of the moais on this wall there are wonderful views of Tongariki on the coast, and the Pacific Ocean to the east.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~rwdavy/ranoraraku1.htm (310 words)

	Easter Island and the Mysterious Moai
		Rano Raraku, as mentioned previously, is the island's main quarry and one of few sites located inland, near the eastern tip of the island.
		Lee indicated she feels Rano Raraku is "probably the most mindblowing" site.
		Like Rano Raraku, Ahu Akivi is an inland site, originally intended to overlook a Rapa Nui settlement.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/archaeology/37245/5 (421 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		Of the 887 statues known to exist on the island, 397 of them are still in situ at Rano Raraku and 288 are known to have made it to their final destination: the ahus or platforms that were built to support them.
		Rano Raraku in the distance, the quarry from which 95 per cent of the moai originated
		One of the fallen moai at Ahu Tongariti in front of Rano Raraku.
	exn.ca /mysticplaces/Building.cfm (1430 words)

	An Afternoon of Exploration and Discovery
		We were on the southern edge of the area and Rano Raraku looked especially close.
		That one is about five meters long, lying prone next to a modern stone wall running to the right from the distant grove of trees in the picture at right.
		Her response to my e-mail query speculated I was on the northern statue road between Rano Raraku and La Perouse, and recommended I check Katherine Routledge's book The Mystery of Easter Island.
	home.att.net /~Karen.Crisafulli/exploration.html (597 words)

	Luxury Easter Island Tours
		Drive along the coast to the "Camino de los Moais" and hike up the Rano Raruku Volcano, with its crater lake, gigantic quarries of tuff, where the stone statues were carved, and about 300 statues in different states of completion.
		Statue on slope of Rano Raraku, Easter Island.
		Thin moai at Rano Raraku in sunset light, Easter Island.
	www.inkas.com /tours/chile/easter_island_4n.html (1888 words)

	MTP PEM Tropics B Photo Gallery
		Rano Kau, one of two craters on Easter Island which have lakes, drops nearly 300 m to the sea
		The quarry at Rano Raraku where there are nearly 400 moai -- many in the foreground
		The lake at Rano Raraku with rushes; moai can be seen in foreground.
	mtp.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/pem/easter_pg.htm (546 words)

	Easter Island - images - Travel-Images.com - Isla de Pascua
		Easter Island - Rano Raraku crater: volcanic rock outcropping from which the megaliths were carved
		Easter Island - Rano Raraku crater: lake in the crater of an extinct volcano
		Easter Island : wide view of Rano Raraku and the south coast
	www.travel-images.com /easter.html (203 words)

	Easter Island History And Mataa Spear Points
		The highest volcanic cone on the island is Maunga Terevaka in the northeast corner which rises to 1,674 feet.
		Rano Kau is one of the three largest volcanoes on the Island.
		On it's rim is the location of the ceremonial village of Orongo where the center of Easter Island's final phase Birdman Cult was once located.
	lithiccastinglab.com /gallery-pages/2001decembereasterislandpage1.htm (999 words)

	Chile, Chilean tours, Santiago, Easter Islands, Moai, Rapa Nui, Vaihu, Akahanga, Rano Raraku volcano, Ahu Akivi, ...
		Half day's excursion to Rano Kau volcano, site of ancient petroglyphs and the ceremonial temple of Iorongo, Vinapu (site of meticulous stonework found nowhere else on the islands) along with the Anakai Tangata caves.
		Half day's excursion to Ahu Akivi, the famous seven Moais, believed to be one of the last built around 1460 and measuring 14 feet in height and weighing 12 metric tons.
		For current availability contact us at info@amazingperu.com and we will send you the relevant trip dossier along with a 90 day fixed quote, terms and conditions.
	www.amazingperu.com /rapanuitour.htm (261 words)

	Easter Island - A giant moai stands buried @ Rano Raraku - Worldisround photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Easter Island picture - The volcano Rano Raraku contains the rock from which all of the island's moai were hewn.
		Erosion has buried many of the giants who can reach up to 65 feet tall and weigh almost 80 tons.
		The volcano Rano Raraku contains the rock from which all of the island's moai were hewn.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/1301/photo4.html (159 words)

	Easter Island: Moai Figures \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fallen moai at the temple of Ahu Vaihu.
		The largest moai, an unfinished example over 70 feet high, in the statuequarry at Rano Raraku.
		Most were carved from soft volcanic tuff at Rano Raraku, an extinct volcanic crater that served as the primary statue quarry.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/moai/hd_moai.htm (465 words)

	Branson & Rikhoff Tour: 4 - 17 February 2006
		Trail past statues at Rano Raraku, Easter Island, Chile.
		Proceed to Rano Raraku, quarry of almost 900 stone statues, 397 of them still lying or standing at the slopes of the extinct volcano with crater lake.
		Drive up the extinct volcano Rano Kau, appreciate on the way a view over the whole island and see its distinct geological features, proceed to an outlook at the crater lake.
	www.inkas.com /tours/clients/branson.html (1156 words)

	Chile Travel and Tours - Travel to Easter Island on this culturally-focused Chile travel option! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ahu, which means "sacred place," refers to the rectangular stone platform on which the famous Moai (enormous, 100-ton basalt statues) were often erected..
		Seventy standing sentinels, embedded up to their shoulders in grass on the south slope of the volcanic crater Rano Raraku, lead the way to the quarry or "nursery" inside of the impressive crater rim.
		Day 3 Orongo - Ahu Vinapu - Ana Kai Tangata Cave (B) We drive to Rano Kau volcano, the biggest on the island, whose enormous crater is now a fresh water lake with floating green fields of totora reeds.
	www.adventure-life.com /chile/chile_tours/tour/EI5.php (923 words)

	Moai Statue Lying Submerged in Soil, Rano Raraku, Easter Island, Valparaiso, Chile Photographic Print by Paul Kennedy ...
		Moai Statue Lying Submerged in Soil, Rano Raraku, Easter Island, Valparaiso, Chile Photographic Print by Paul Kennedy at AllPosters.com
		Moai Statue Lying Submerged in Soil, Rano Raraku, Easter Island, Valparaiso, Chile by Paul Kennedy
		Moai Statue Lying Submerged in Soil, Rano Raraku, Easter Island, Valparaiso, Chile
	www.allposters.com /-sp/Moai-Statue-Lying-Submerged-In-Soil-Rano-Raraku-Easter-Island-Valparaiso-Chile_i1485071_.htm?aid=398737 (109 words)

	Rapanui: Edmunds and Bryan Photograph Collection
		Photographs of Rano Raraku, site of major moai building, are presented here.
		"Eastern portion of south side of Rano Raraku"
		"Standing statues on SW slope of Rano Raraku..."
	libweb.hawaii.edu /digicoll/rapanui/archrrPg1.html (57 words)

	TurismoChile: Turismo Sur de America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		FD: Ahu Tahai, Rano Kau, Orongo, Rano Raraku, Ahu Tongariki, Anakena,
		FD: Ahu Tahai, Rano Raraku, Ahu Tongariki, Ahu Te Pito Kura, Anakena, Ahu Akivi.
		FD: Ahu Hanga Te'e, Rano Raraku, Ahu Tongariki, Ahu Te Pito Kura, Anakena,
	www.turismochile.cl /turismsur (122 words)

	Pictures of Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - Search Photographs Photos Images and Photo Clip Art ...
		Pictures of Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - Search Photographs Photos Images and Photo Clip Art - 604038, 604038.jpg
		Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
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