Easter Island has more than 2000 miles of the nearest center to population, (Tahiti and Chile), which does of them one of the places most isolated in the world. A triangle of volcanic rock in the Southern Pacific - it is better known for the giant stone monoliths, the moai, which strew the coast. The first colonists called l' island " Te Pito O You Henua (the navel of the world). Admiral Roggeveen, which came on l' island the Easter Day in 1722, l' l' baptized; Easter Island. Aujourd' today, the ground, populates and language are all known locally under Grated Harmed.
It ya have much controversy and confusion concerning the origins of the inhabitants of the Easter Islands. Thor Heyerdahl proposed that the people who built the statues were d' Peruvian origin, because d' a similarity between Grated Harmed and INCA hones. Some suggested that l' Easter Island is the vestige d' a lost continent, or the d' result; an extraterrestrial influence.
The archaeological proof indicates the discovery of l' however; island by the Polynesians with approximately 400 AD - involved, according to the legend by Hotu Matua. As of their arrival, an impressive and enigmatic culture started to develop. In addition to the statues, the islanders had script Rongorongo, the only language written in Oceania.  island also shelters many petroglyphs (engravings on stone), as well as wood sculptures traditional, typed (fabric d' bark), l' craft industry, tattooing, plays of string, the dance and the music.

Population of l' Easter Island reaches its peak with perhaps more than 10.000, exceeding the capacities of l' by far; ecosystem of l' island of Small. The resources were done rare, and the forests of luxuriant palm trees, once were destroyed - cleared for l' agriculture and the displacement of the massive stone Moais. In this respect, l' Easter Island became, for much, a metaphor of the ecological catastrophe. Thereafter, an social order in full rise and advanced started to decline in a bloody civil war and, obviously, the cannibalism.
Finally, all the moai upright along the coast were demolished by the islanders themselves. All statues now set up around l' island are the result of the archaeological recent efforts.

Contacts with l' West " civilisation" was even more disastrous for the population of l' island which, through l' slavery and the disease, had decreased to approximately 111 with the turning of the century. Following l' annexation by Chile in 1888, however, it passed to more than 2.000, with d' other Rapanui live in Chile, in Tahiti and North America.
In spite of an increasing presence of Chile, l' Polynesian identity of l' island is still rather strong. Easter Island d' aujourd' today, remains l' one of the most single places that you will never meet, a museum in the open air putting in the high-speed motorboat attractive, but unfortunately lost, culture. Rapanui are among the friendliest people whom you will never meet, and the landscape is really incredible - with its volcanic craters, the formations of lava, of the beaches, l' brilliant blue water, and archeological sites.