EASTER ISLAND - ANCIENT GATEWAY TO THE PACIFIC

ANOTHER HUGE, OPEN AIR UNIVERSITY FOR TEACHING PRINCIPLES OF NAVIGATION & CYCLIC ASTRONOMY

There have been centuries of speculation related to the purpose and function of the giant moai statues of Easter Island, arrayed as they are in lines on ahu platforms around the entire coastline or placed as individual, stand-alone monuments at multiple inland locations. In total, the number of moai approaches about 1000, with yet more being discovered from time to time to add to the known dossier. Coupled with the many complete and standing, or fallen and often broken statues, are many other kinds of surveying-related markers. These include large and hefty, incised or shaped stone obelisks and boulders, fabricated in a wide variety of designs. There are also purpose-built mounds and cairn structures, as well as cut plateaus on modified hill tops, where a series of incoming survey lines converge then resolve to one common point.

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