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Tropika Easter Island case study Bizcommunity.com This charming and funny animated clip featured a play on the word "Easter", and showed viewers a little peek at the Easter Island statues. These famous head statues (known as 'moai') were given a breath of life as the stars of the video.

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Easter Island's fading rock stars NEWS.com.au THERE is plenty to not like about Easter Island: to start with, it's too far away from anywhere to make it easy to get to, the place is overrun with feral horses and the island is struggling to get a few trees growing after being deforested in its ... and more »

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Breaking Travel News

New Easter Island app launched this week Breaking Travel News Easter Island has long appealed to the curious traveller, both for its unbelievable isolation and the world-famous stone statues, or moais. Whether you're planning to visit this remote island, or are simply curious to see more of it without stepping ... and more »

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Chilean Government Announces Plan to Expand Marine Reserves Around Easter ... MarketWatch (press release) This new marine conservation plan for Easter Island is set to be established by the end of the year. The governmental also announced the plan to develop an assessment and status report of the main fisheries of Easter Island. Following an expedition in ... LAN celebrates 45 years of serving Easter Islande-Travel Blackboard (press release) all 9 news articles »

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Waka to repeat ancient Easter Island trip MSN NZ News Two double-hulled waka are to sail nearly 19000 kilometres without modern navigational aids from New Zealand to Easter Island later this year, recreating Maori ancestral journeys across the Pacific. The two waka, with no cabins or mod-cons and carrying ... Epic journey by two double hulled waka launchedRadio New Zealand all 4 news articles »

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Just Back From: Easter Island (PHOTOS) Huffington Post (blog) Easter Island, which lies equidistant between the coasts of Chile and Tahiti in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is shrouded in mysteries, making it an incredible destination for cultural travelers. Writing for Indagare, Amelia Osborne recently visited ... and more »

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3News NZ

Waka trip to Easter Island with no mod cons 3News NZ By Brook Sabin A group of intrepid Maori explorers are about to embark on an epic journey – a waka trip to Easter Island, using the stars to guide them. The two waka that will make the voyage don't have any modern-day navigation equipment, ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Watch for it Sunday: 'Ring of Fire' eclipse Seattle Post Intelligencer AFP PHOTO Photo: STR, AFP/Getty Images / 2010 AFP The sun is seen partially covered by the moon on Easter Island, 3700 kilometers off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 11, 2010. A total solar eclipse began its 11000-kilometer (6800-mile) ... Near-Total Eclipse of the Heart (and Sun) Coming to Texas SundayStateImpact Texas Solar eclipse on May 20 will be a rare sightGlobalPost Solar Eclipse Facts: 14 Fascinating Things Skywatchers Should KnowHuffington Post all 1,237 news articles »

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Surviving Progress Boston.com Ronald Wright's 2004 book, “A Short History of Progress,” looked at societal decline in terms of the past — Easter Island, ancient Sumeria, the Roman Empire, the Mayans — drawing lessons for today. Wright meant the title ironically. and more »

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Daily Gossip

Easter Island archaeology project digs up island's secrets Fox News New photographs reveal what lies beneath the surface of Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world -- the carved bodies of the island's 887 famous guardians. Most people think of the 63-square-mile Pacific island's silent stone sentinels ... The Easter Island Statues Have Bodies UndergroundDaily Gossip Easter Island statues have full bodies and contain ancient petroglyphsYahoo! News Blogs (blog) Who'da Thunk It: Easter Island Heads Have BodiesGhost Theory (blog) all 4 news articles »

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