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When the Gods Were Blind

Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Wandering amidst Easter Islands’ stone heads, one glimpses how the world ends
To calculate the distance between hope and despair, one could sit on the edge of a 250-metre oceanside cliff on the South Pacific’s fabled Easter Island and consider the fate of those who once lived in the world’s most remote, inhabited place. At first [...]

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Podcast: Easter Island

Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by BCAA.

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Westworld writer Daniel Wood travels to Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island.
In this episode he learns more about the civilization that created the monumental statues called moai and chats with local tour guide Josephina Malloy about the rise and fall of the Rapa Nui people.

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Island of Mystery

Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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On Easter Day in 1722, a Dutch expedition under the command of Jacob Roggeveen sighted a low, flat Pacific Island, found it inhabited and went ashore. The sailors were amazed by the statues they found there, hundreds of huge heads made from volcanic stone. The equally amazed islanders brought the Dutch sailors bananas and chickens. [...]