A moai statue has been discovered on Easter Island at the bottom of a recently dried crater lake
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. The statue is the first of the island’s famous giant-headed figures to be found in the lake. Easter Island, located more than 3500 kilometres from the South American continent, is dotted with more than 900 of the iconic statues, carved from volcanic rock more than 500 years ago by the Rapa Nui people.
Most of the statues were carved from rock quarried at the Rano Raraku volcano. Some were left at the volcano, which is now a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hundreds of others were transported to other parts of the island.“We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up,” Terry Hunt at the University of Arizona told the television programThe new statue is 1.
Rano Raraku’s crater is normally filled with water, but the lake has been shrinking since 2018, Ninoska Avareipua Huki Cuadros, director of Ma’u Henua,
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