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EASTER ISLAND: The Island That Ate Itself | 4K Travel Documentary

Eight Peruvian ships appeared on the horizon of Easter Island in December 1862. They carried fireworks, colored cloth, and an invitation to come aboard. The Rapa Nui — who had governed the world's most remote inhabited island for a thousand years — came. The hatches locked. Approximately 1,500 people were loaded below decks, including King Kaimakoi and every person on Easter Island who could read its writing system. Of those 1,500, fifteen survived to be repatriated. They brought smallpox home. By 1877, 111 people remained. In this documentary, discover the full story of Rapa Nui — the 887 moai and how they were moved upright using ropes without felling a single tree, the writing system no living person can read, the volcanic quarry where the largest statue ever attempted was abandoned mid-stroke, and the Birdman competition that replaced an entire political order after civil war. Easter Island is not the cautionary tale the world decided it was. Take a breath. Stay a while. ▶ See More 4K Documentaries: COLOMBIA:    • COLOMBIA: The Lost City 650 Years Older Th...   MYANMAR:    • MYANMAR: 10,000 Temples in a Land the Worl...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @whereonearth4k   #EasterIsland #RapaNui #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #PacificHistory