Jan 21, 2014 · I have often asked myself, What was Jared Diamond thinking when he first learned that everything Easter Island symbolized to him might be wrong? Did the prize-winning, internationally celebrated writer ever look around at the accumulating evidence and think that maybe–just maybe–Easter Island

Planning a bucket list trip to Easter Island? Here’s everything you need to know, from how to get there to where to stay, what souvenirs to buy, and

Few historical tales of ecological collapse have achieved the cultural resonance of that of Easter Island. In the conventional account, best popularised by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book ‘Collapse’, the islanders brought doom upon themselves by over-exploiting their limited environment, thereby

History of Easter Island. Easter Island is one of the est inhabited territories on Earth, and for most of its history it was the most isolated inhabited territory on Earth.

Orthodox Easter celebrations on the Greek island of Corfu are a smash — literally. Corfiots have marked Holy Saturday with a strange old custom referred to as the “Botides” — where large clay jugs filled with water are thrown from the balconies of homes in the centre of town, smashing into

The Lessons of Easter Island. Clive Ponting (this is a chapter excerpt from Clive Ponting’s A Green History of the World: The Environment …

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Ship logs from the 1722 voyage to Easter Island of Jacob Roggeveen.

Facts About Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ph.D. Location. Lying isolated in the East Pacific, in an extreme windward position, Rapa Nui is the easternmost Polynesian island.

Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of …