Discover Easter Island

by admin on August 30th, 2010

Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, over 2,000 miles from any other significant mass of land or population, the small oasis of Easter Island (approximately 63 square miles) amid a desert of water is one of the most isolated places on the map. Currently close to 5,000 people call the small island home, estimated at the height of its civilization to have close to 10,000 inhabitants. Only a blip on the radar as far as worldwide land or population is concerned, the small island has well out-contributed its size in terms of cultural significance.Named for its “discovery” on Easter Sunday of 1722, the small island was already an already developed culture of its own by the time the Europeans landed. Archaeologists theorize the islanders were the descendants of an individual group of Polynesians who discovered the small chunk of land, took up residence there, then never contacted their original homeland again, or any off-island entities for that matter. More