Easter Island, situated 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, was named by the first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who discovered it on Easter Sunday in 1722.
The sky is seen behind a row of moai statues. About 95% of the 887 moai known to date were carved out of compressed volcanic ash at Rano Raraku, where 394 moai still remain visible today.
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