Imagine you and your family are dragging 20 elephants across an island, to commemorate the life of your great-grandpa. Would you and your immediate family be able to pull the elephants across the entire island if they were not moving on their own? Or would you have the determination and respect for your grandpa to do so? Most people in today’s day and age probably would not be able to, let alone want to do that. The people on Easter island back around 1250 CE did though, but instead of elephants, they moved 60 ton rocks to commemorate the life of a deceased family member. There are three main things I’m going to talk about, the island, the people, and the stones.
Easter island is a chilean island in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. It
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Along with other surrounding islets, Easter Island forms a summit over 6600 from the sea floor.*** The island is the most isolated island in the world from other islands or continents. The island is most famous for their statues scattered across the island called “Moai.” There are a few main volcanos on the island: the Rano Raraku, Rano Kau, Tereveka and the Poike. The stone statues were all carved from the Rano Raraku volcano, which is 600 feet tall, almost as tall as the Seattle Space Needle. Easter island has a very tropical climate. It is very humid there, and there are a lot of hills. The only food that grows there is bananas mangos and oranges. However this has not always been the case. When the french came to the island, they brought something with them; they brought all of their sheep. They decided that due to the fertility of the soil and the almost perfect climate, raising sheep there would be ideal. For around 100 years they allowed their sheep to roam freely and graze wherever they pleased. When they reached their maximum potential, they were brought to a factory located in the middle of the island where