Rano Raraku

64 square miles is roughly how much Easter Island covers in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located some 2,500 miles (4023.36 kilometres) east of Tahiti and 2,300 miles (3701.491 kilometres) from Chile’s west coast. It is a part of the Polynesian triangle with New Zealand and Hawaii. Known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Easter Island, or Paaseiland, in 1722 in honour of the day of their arrival by Dutch explorers. How did such a small remote island become inhabited

Easter Island I was born today. My bones quarried at Rano Raraku near the northeast end of my homeland, Easter Island. My makers were small, with deep tawny skin that gleamed with moisture under the sun as they carved the gentle curves of my body. As I lay among the rock, an unmoving piece of stone that stretched across the land to the creatures that constructed me, I observed the thriving life around me. I was surrounded by trees, some whose unbranched bodies shot into the vibrant sky,

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