Île de Pâques - une énigme Pacifique

Dans l'océan pacifique, les milliers de milles de n'importe où, île de Pâques, est l'île la plus à distance du monde.

Même si vous ne savez rien au sujet de cette île que vous serez probablement au courant du Moai iconique, les têtes en pierre jusqu'à 20m grands, qui doivent être trouvés partout l'île. Le Moia et le peuple qui les ont mis là ont été le sujet d'une pléthore de théories et de documentaires de télévision qui ont essayé d'expliquer l'origine du peuple et de pourquoi elles ont construit le Moia.

The Norwegian archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl spent years studying the island and excavating ruins to try to unravel the mysteries of the island. Most famously he built and sailed the Kon Tiki, a raft made of reeds, from Peru to Easter Island in an attempt to demonstrate his theory that the island had been populated from South America.

Modern research using DNA samples taken from human remains on the island have conclusively shown that the people who arrived and settled on Easter Island, were of Polynesian decent not South American. This outcome is hardly surprising given the fact that the Polynesian peoples possessed the seafaring skills to populate many other remote islands throughout the Pacific, from New Zealand to Hawaii.

A trip to Easter Island is a truly unforgettable experience and if you should ever visit this mysterious place and contemplate the infinite ocean that surrounds it, it is hard not to ask yourself the questions that visitors have been asking for centuries.