Fasts about Easter Island

The heads on Easter Island have hidden bodies. They actually extend into the ground when you dig deeper!

The island was home to an ancient race of people called the Rapa Nui. However, Europeans and any further outsiders wouldn’t reach the location until 1722. That was when Jacob Roggeveen first found the island, naming it after the date he landed on the shore. It was Easter Sunday!

The moai were moved across the island into their current spots, but no one really knows how. There are schools of thought which suggest logs were used to roll them around.

Someone once tried stealing a piece of a moai – a chunk of the ear, specifically – only to be caught and fined $17,000. He could have faced up to seven years in prison – and as a result, there have been stronger cordons put in place to restrict tourist access.