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Stone Giants Easter
Island One of the most isolated places on
Earth with a impressive and mysterious culture.
So how small is Easter Island?
Pacific Ocean at 27 degrees south of the equator and some 2200 miles (3600 kilometers) off the coast of Chile.
A jewel of an island floating in an endless sea
volcanic craters
lava formations
beaches and the brilliant blue water
small, hilly
massive statues that dot the coastline treeless island of volcanic origin
Admiral Roggeveen, named it Easter Island on Easter Day in 1722
2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile)
People who built the statues were of Peruvian descent or where they?
So what
went wrong?
population grew rapidly
outpaced the island's capacity to renew itself
social and cultural collapse
forests was gone, the rich ground cover had eroded away
springs had dried up
vast flocks of birds disappeared
no fishing - no wood to build canoes
famine and then cannibalism
This lead to total chaos
Once There Was a mountain formations
fishing streams hills forest
rich soil
So ----- have we learned from their mistakes?
But before we abandon all hope – take look at Easter Island today…………………..
Does anyone have any question?
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html
Easter Island http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Isld_Pge.html
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