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The Stone Staues of Easter Island
Title: The Stone Staues of Easter Island
Category: History
Details: Words: 1709 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Stone Staues of Easter Island
The Stone Staues of Easter Island
Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European
known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the
isolated population he found there. It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island
from any direction, which would have taken a minimum of two weeks, covering several
thousand miles of seemingly endless ocean. It is clear, however, that the original
inhabitants …showed first 75 words of 1709 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1709 total…to construct a digital version of an average
moai. This digital statue has informed her hypothesis for a potential transport method for
moving the moai; the statue which Van Tilburg's team will attempt to move and erect has
been made to the exact dimensions of this digital moai. The dimensions are 13.29 ft high,
5.25 ft wide at the base, 4.86 ft wide at the head, 6.04 ft deep through body, total volume
of 210.48 cubic ft, and weighs 13.78 tons.
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