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Allwondersoftheworld.com describes the isolated Easter Land that is home to strange enormous heads made of dense volcanic ashes and are legends of the past.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza
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The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
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The Colossus of Rhodes
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The Seven Natural Wonders of the World
 
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The Great Barrier Reef
The Grand Canyon
Victoria Falls
The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Paricutin Volcano
The Northern Lights
The Seven Underwater Wonders of the World
 
Palau
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The Northern Red Sea
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The Great Barrier Reef
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The Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind
 
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The Seven Forgotten Natural Wonders of the World
 
Angel Falls
The Bay of Fundy
Iguaçú Falls
Krakatoa Island
Mount Fuji
Mount Kilimanjaro
Niagara Falls
The Seven Forgotten Modern Wonders of the World
 
The Clock Tower (Big Ben)
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Hoover Dam
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The Petronas Towers
The Seven Forgotten Wonders of the Medieval Mind
 
Abu Simbel Temple
Angkor Wat
Taj Mahal
Mont Saint-Michel
The Moai Statues
The Parthenon
The Shwedagon Pagoda
The Forgotten Wonders
 
The Aztec Temple
The Banaue Rice Terraces
The Borobudur Temple
The Inca City
The Statue of Liberty
The Mayan Temples
The Temple of the Inscriptions
The Throne Hall of Persepolis
Petra
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The Sydney Opera House
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Moai Statues

Moai are monolithic statues carved from dense volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The Easter Island is a triangular shaped, isolated volcanic island which is located in the Pacific Ocean in Chile.

The island has remained secluded from human habitation for years and has been refered to as the land steeped in mystery. The inhabitants of this charming and mysterious place called their land: Te Pito o TeHenua, meaning 'the navel of the world.'

In 1722, a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, and visited the island on an Easter Sunday and hence the name Easter Island (Isla de Pascua in Spanish) came in use.

When we think of Easter Islands the first thing that strikes us are the stone carved figures that dot the coastline.

About 1000 moai statues of about 3-4 metres in height and4-5 tons in weight, made of gigantic stone were placed on this island. Interestingly these effigies had hat like structures over their heads which were often called "topknots". Although usually identified as "heads" only, the moai are actually heads and shortened torsos. The Moai are seen all over the island, and in different shapes, sizes, and stages of completion. Many of them were left incomplete at the quarry site. The statue named "Paro", almost 10 metres high and weighing about 75 tonnes is the largest moai erected.

But there had been great speculation and curiosity about who originally built these strange structures and why they were built! The most broadly-accepted theory is that the statues were carved by the Polynesian colonizers of the island. In fact they were carved by a distinguished class of skilled carvers who were compared to high-ranking members of other Polynesian craft associations.

Local people say that these statues are the symbols of each tribe said to have died such that it began at about 8th century and that it ended at the 17th century. While others opine that they were carved by the ancestors of the present inhabitants.

Allwondersoftheworld.com describes the monolithic statues of the Moais who even today stands meditatively in the deserted Easter Island, as if it looking at the far sea draped in mystery.

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