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Easter Island By brlel1 Geology The coordinates of Easter Island are 27.7’south and 109.22’west. Easter Island is 3510 kilometers(2180 miles) west of.

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3 Geology The coordinates of Easter Island are 27.7’south and 109.22’west. Easter Island is 3510 kilometers(2180 miles) west of continental Chile. Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world. Easter Island is 63 square miles and has three extinct volcanos.(Easter Island is really just one large volcano.) The image of above is a map of Easter

4 Items of Easter Island Items of Easter Island are:…….. Carvings of wood.(even though wood was scarce) Obsidian chips from tool making. The Ahu.(which are forbidden to touch or walk on) Stone Moai weighing up to 14 tons and tall as 33 feet. The image of above are of the 15 only moai on Easter Island facing the pacific ocean.

5 Scientists & Easter Island Scientists had found that moai designs were passed down even without written records. Easter Islanders’ original nationality may have came from Polynesia, Tahiti, and other countries of South America.

6 Fun Facts(or Boring) Easter Island was named for the day it was found: Easter Day, 1722. The language of Easter Island is called Rongorongo. Easter Island’s name in Rongorongo is Rapanui.(rah-puh noo-ee) Easter Island’s current language is Spanish. Easter Island’s current population is about 4781-5682 people.

7 Disclaimer Note: this whole slideshow’s information was all from different websites which are: http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

8 Bye-bye Thanks for watching ^.^ BYE-BYE!^.^


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