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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON EASTER ISLAND?
Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, is in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, 3,700 kilometers west of Chile. The island was permanently settled around the years 800 to 1200. It was a tricky place to live in. Rapa Nui is subtropical. It gets less rainfall than most Polynesian islands, and that rain is erratic.
When surgeon J. Linton Palmer landed there in 1868, he found what he thought was a disaster. The island was barely inhabited. There were only around 100 people living there. But it was clear that there had once been a larger, organized society.
Rapa Nui had hundreds of stone statues…
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