About one mile east of Rano Raraku volcano is Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues. We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku.

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

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the largest of Easter Island’s ceremonial stone platforms. Rapanui artisans carved the moai centuries ago from volcanic rock at a quarry a mile away. By the 19th century all of Easter’s moai ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ... He tells me this as we climb up the cone of a volcano called Rano Raraku to the quarry where the great moai were once carved. The steep path winds ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ... 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

The main quarry for Easter Island's statues, this volcanic crater is a virtual moai graveyard. The stone-faced giants lie in various states of production. Some are half carved, many are broken ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... years—about 95 percent of the statues were carved in the volcanic cone known as Rano Raraku. Master carvers, who taught ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...

for toppling statues - or moai - and for over-exploiting the island’s natural resources,” she said. But the art which adorns Easter Island’s landscape, volcanoes and statues, body tattoos and carved ...