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Sunrise on monolithic Moai statues at Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island, Chile

The mystery Easter Island - Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name - is a small volcanic island in the South Pacific Ocean and one of the most isolated places on earth.
Easter Island bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. From the 10th to the 16th century, a society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300, built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai , which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world.

The Ahu Tongariki is, of all the ahu in Easter Island, the most prestigious and certainly the largest one with his 15 statues located in front of the Rano Raraku quarry.

Its moai were toppled during the island's civil wars and in the twentieth century the statues were destroyed by a huge tidal wave in 1960, but the site was restored afterwards, including an 86 tonnes moai that was the heaviest ever erected on the island.

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Taken in: Chile / Valparaíso (show map)

Taken on: April 25, 2013

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