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The name comes from the large Moai statues on Easter Island built around the year 1300 AD
This island is part of Chile and is called the "navel of the world." The island has a format similar to that of a triangle with 20 km on each side. This place is surrounded and full of mysteries.
One of the stories surrounding this place is that of statues called Moai. According to legend, they were produced by Rapa Nui people that used only ropes to lift the giant statues that weigh over 20 tons.
Another intriguing point is how a stone-age people carried huge sculptures on one side of the island to another. May never be able to fully explain the origin of Moais, carved by local ancestors who have left no explanation.
The archaeologist Thor Heyerdhal became famous when crossed the Pacific Ocean on a fragile raft of reeds, called the Kon-Tiki. The trip proved it was possible to go from Peru to Polynesia only with the help of the wind. This seems to confirm the legend that ancestors of the Rapa Nui people came from the east, traveling by sea, bringing with them the technique of stone sculpture of the Andean peoples. The only Moai on the island looking to the sea are seven. They represent the seven pioneers who opened the South Pacific aboard flimsy rafts.
