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The mysterious statues of Easter Island are over 40 feet high and weigh nearly 70 tons.
Easter Island
Easter Island lies in the Pacific Ocean about 2,400 miles west of Chile, which owns the island and nearly 5,000 miles east of Australia. The island is a volcanic rock covering 45 square miles. Only about 500 people now live there, mostly Polynesians.
Easter Island was once the home of a mysterious people who built more than 600 huge rock statues of ghostly, legless men. Some of the statues are 40 feet high and weigh nearly 70 tons. Unknown sculptors carved these giant statues with stone pick-axes. With no known mechanical aids, they hauled the statues up to the high ground and erected them on platforms. On the head of each statue they balanced a red stone about eight feet in diameter. The statues may have had a religious purpose. Possibly they were used in ancestor worship. Human bones have been found near them. The statue builders destroyed many small statues carved by an earlier people whom the giant-statue builders replaced and probably killed.
Polynesian adventurers sailed to the island in about 1670. They conquered it and probably killed the statue building people. Admiral Roggeveen, a Dutch seaman, discovered Easter Island, on Easter Sunday 1722, and named it. Peruvian slave traders took many people from the Easter Island in 1862. Immediately after this, smallpox further reduced the population.
