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Description
Tongariki is one of the few ahu (plattform for cermony holding the Moais) which was rehabilited for the toursist after 4 years of archeological work ('92-'95). The lightest Moai is about 46 tonnes and the heaviest about 80 T.

The history of the Island inhabitants is quite complex. They were polynesians and arrived around the 12 century. One or two century later they started to build the first ahus. Then little by little they dismounted these ahus and build new ones... Up to 3 generations on one spot. The latest one were build around the 16th century. The mystery of the island comes mainly from the fact that almost all its original inhabitants were taken into slavery and died in some mines in Peru. Therefore the memory of the ancient has been lost.

Easter Island is the remotest inhabited Island in the world. It's in the middle of the Pacific ocean, 4000 km away from the coast of Chile and 2500 km away from the closest inhabited Island (Pitcairn)

Description
Tongariki is one of the few ahu (plattform for cermony holding the Moais) which was rehabilited for the toursist after 4 years of archeological work ('92-'95). The lightest Moai is about 46 tonnes and the heaviest about 80 T.

The history of the Island inhabitants is quite complex. They were polynesians and arrived around the 12 century. One or two century later they started to build the first ahus. Then little by little they dismounted these ahus and build new ones... Up to 3 generations on one spot. The latest one were build around the 16th century. The mystery of the island comes mainly from the fact that almost all its original inhabitants were taken into slavery and died in some mines in Peru. Therefore the memory of the ancient has been lost.

Easter Island is the remotest inhabited Island in the world. It's in the middle of the Pacific ocean, 4000 km away from the coast of Chile and 2500 km away from the closest inhabited Island (Pitcairn)