The discovery of Easter Island with enigmatic stone colossuses

The indigenous people called their home “Rapa Nui”, the name came from their ancestors who landed here as Polynesian ocean travelers. The island is just as big as Liechtenstein. The barren and unwooded landscape is mainly characterized by extinct volcanoes. From a political point of view, Rapa Nui is now part of Chile, which is more than 3500 kilometers away. Geographically, the…