Easter Island
Easter Island is a small triangle of rock situated in the Pacific Ocean. It’s about 2,000 miles from the nearest city. Easter Island is for its statues. Hundreds of these huge, stone faces can be all over the island. Who made them? How they move these giant pieces of rock? What happened the people who lived there? Studies show that people arrived on the island about 1600 years ago. They had a very advanced culture. They made many objects and they had their written language. However, the number of people on the island grew and grew it reached about 10,000 people. Soon there were too many people and there wasn’t food to eat. A terrible war started and of the statues were broken. When western explorers the island on Easter Day in 1722, the huge rock statues were the only sign that a great society had once lived there.