Focus On: Easter Island

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What?

Pagan statues

Where?

South Pacific, 2,340 miles west of Chile

When?

c. 350–1400 A.D.

Who?

Polynesian islanders

Artworks

900 statues

Largest statue: 65 feet (270 tons)

Average size: 14 feet (14 tons)

250 ceremonial platforms

Other Facts

First known contact with the outside world came when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen landed there on Easter Sunday 1722. Thus the name “Easter Island.”