Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a remote island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean under Chilean administration. It is famous for nearly 1,000 monumental stone statues called moai, carved by the native Rapa Nui people between roughly 1100 and 1680 CE. The moai are large monolithic figures, mostly carved from volcanic tuff at the Rano Raraku quarry, often with torsos and in some cases buried to the torsos by shifting soil. They stand on ceremonial stone platforms called ahu. The island's isolation, rich Polynesian culture, and extraordinary statue-sculpting tradition earned it UNESCO World Heritage status in 1995.
Location: Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile
Coordinates: -27.12, -109.35
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