Easter Island Heads Are Hiding Something - Look

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More than 950 figures on the island. Most people don't know this but each one of the Easter island heads has a complete body, that remains hidden from view underground. On average they are 15-20 feet tall. It's not difficult to shape the stones, they are relatively quite soft.

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Carved between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry

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There are 250 platforms with Moai statues on them spaced approximately one half mile apart to create an almost unbroken line around the perimeter of the island.

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The tallest moai erected, called Paro, was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 90.4 tons.

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If completed the tallest moai would have been approximately 21 m (69 ft) tall, with a weight of about 270 tons!



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wow nice post love the pic i wish easter island wasn,t hard to visit i want to been there to see beauty of easter island

Wooh, you got a profile picture. It's crazy how remote it is and how the statues exist in isolation from the world!

I wish Easter Island wasn't hard to visit. Perhaps one day

I can imagine it's pretty pricy to get there as it is so remote. I think it's pretty open compared to other historic places, you can just roam free among the statues there. I hope to go some day too!

I have a rapa man on a post at my beach house. (he's my protection). Fascinating culture there. It’s on my bucket list to go there. The one I have came from Home Depot (building supply’s). It’s about 1 meter high, made of fiber cement material.

That's sick, I would love to see a picture of it. Sounds awesome.

Here's the photos on the HomeDepot web site, for the one I have at my beach house:
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It lists at C$140, and is Constructed from NuCrete™ , a durable fibre reinforced concrete.