Easter Island

In two thousand six, scientific census-takers found a hairy new species of crab near Easter Island.

Easter Island (referred to as "Rapanui" by the island's native population) is quite literally in the middle of nowhere.

While I was in Easter Island , Comet McNaught was there also , so, you get a gratuitous picture of a moab with a comet .

Uncovering the secrets of the figurine leads the two and their allies on an adventure at the massive stone statues of Easter Island.

Easter Island is a place of intrigue and mystery, and its indigenous script rongo-rongo is no exception.

In the ensuing voyage, their mast was broken in the storm, the boat drifted to Easter Island.

Seeing these stone men reminds me of those colossal stone sculptures on Easter Island.

Tourists swim in Hangaroa beach as the sun sets on Easter Island, 3700 km off the coast of Chile.

Easter Island is set apart by the wondrous stone statues, called moai, that silently watch over the island's serene landscape.

Reason: Easter Island's silent stone figures are a monument to the seafaring skills and unique culture of ancient Polynesian peoples.

Figure 1: A plaque on Easter Island commemorating the discovery of a bacterium producing rapamycin, a potent immunosuppressant.

That day is Easter, so this unknown island is called Easter Island .

The eclipse drew an arc across the open sea and uninhabited atolls, making its main landfall on remote Easter Island.

We had the old crow over at Hull, looking like a Christmas present from Easter Island.

The roads on which the statues were moved across Easter Island have now been mapped.

But rapamycin, a fungus-fighting bacterial secretion originally discovered in the soil of Easter Island, showed a marked effect.

Rapamycin is a bacterial product originally found in a soil sample from Easter Island.

Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script.

This member of the new Kiwaidae family of crabs, discovered near Easter Island, was named Kiwa hirsute because of its furry appearance.

Jeff and Jennifer Salvage, of Medford, New Jersey, got married on a volcano in Easter Island in the South Pacific five years ago.

YB: Oh, I see. The Easter Island was originally a part of a continent plate. It became a separated island after the excursion of the plate.

Truly the gold standard for all far flung bastions of humanity, Easter Island defies easy explanation.

I'm still grinning about the image of the easter island monuments with prepared surfboards.

The drug, called rapamycin, was originally found in bacteria from Easter Island.

Easter Island is full of mysterious respect to hundreds of giant stone statues known.

Rongo-rongo (see image)means "chants" in Rapanui, the language of Easter Island.

The legends of Easter Island speak of Hiva which sank beneath the waves as people fled.

The sun is eclipsed by the moon seen from Easter Island, 3, 700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 11, 2010.

Easter Island is an island of only 165 square kilometers in the vast South Pacific.

The lesson that Easter Island teaches humanity is bleak.

This drug, rapamycin, was originally discovered in the 1970s in soil from Easter Island.

The real mystery of Easter Island is not how its strange statues got there.

Giant stone moai stand on Easter Island's stony slopes.

Easter Island is more than 3600 kilometers away from the Chilean mainland.

The famous stone monoliths of Easter Island weigh an average of 14 tons each.

"We'll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island, " he says.

EB: Haha, we talked about it. We are sailing to Easter Island.

Easter Island is named after a holiday.

Yeah, it's called Easter Island.

YB: Look, here we are now. The Easter Island!

The new species was found during a deep-sea dive expedition, some 900 miles (1, 500 kilometers) off Easter Island.

It is named Easter Island because it was found on Easter Day.

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If they see me, they'll take me back to Easter Island

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