Easter Island

Adaptive Failure: Easter's End was written by Jared Diamond and was featured in Discover Magazine in August of 1995, this article was mainly written to discuss the rise and fall of the Easter Island civilization. Easter Island is the world's most isolated habitable land, more than 2,200 miles from the nearest continent (South America), and 1,400 miles from the nearest habitable island (Pitcairn). Diamond concluded that the rise of the Easter Island civilization was around 400 A.D. when the Polynesian ancestors of the Easter Island people.

Holland Island is a island in the Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County in Maryland. It was discovered in 1600s and was home to watermen and farmers. It was one of largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay. It had 70 homes, stores, post office, two-room school with two teacher, a church, baseball team, community center, and a doctor. The islanders had fleet of workboats to catch food from the sea to support themselves.

On Easter Day in 1722, Jacob Roggeveen would become the first European to discover what is now known as Easter Island . Before the Dutch explorer first set foot on the island, around the fourth century the first inhabitants arrived . As time goes on, the island ecology decreases rapidly because the population drastically increased. This situation connects to the broad topic of humans and the environment because humans tend to overuse their resources, whether it be plants or animals, to the point where they are unable to recover or to the point of extinction. Mass extinction brought on by the overconsumption of the animals and plants by the Polynesian people who inhabited Easter Island caused the collapse of the society and the land unable to

I was ask to choose a mysterious wonder of the world and write an essay about my reason for choosing; umpteenth wonders appeared in the search box; but only one uphold my attention the most-Easter Island. The isolate island with hundreds of enlarge Moai statues line next to each other facing east is a story need to read. Some of the Moai are delicate carved from past active volcanic ashes by the Easter Polynesian islanders three millennium ago. The quality of the island get a lot of discoveries such as the culture background, the significance about the heads and legendary facts thanks to the archaeologists whom took the time to pursuit the island. As close, my purpose for writing this essay to inscribe words together and hope it create sense

ABSTRACT Easter Island, also known by the indigenous name Rapa Nui, is a remote island in the south Pacific Ocean located over 2000 miles off the coast of Chile and over 1250 miles from the nearest Polynesian island. Easter Island is best known for the hundreds of statues scattered across the island, largely because the question of how exactly these statues got to where they rest has stirred the minds of many theorists since the island’s “discovery” by the Dutch Admiral Roggeveen on Easter Sunday of 1722. This very mystery is considered a pillar in Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond claims that the people of Easter Island carelessly abused the trees located on the island, mainly for the purpose

than giant heads that were left there. This mysterious Island is what is known as

When first discovered there was a group of about 3000 natives living there in a state of turmoil.

reduced in large numbers. As a result, the island was reduced to rambles. Humans depend on

In 3200 B.C. a couple of Scotland farmers that lived in Orkney Islands decided they would build something amazing. Everyday life in Orkney was way more cultured than we ever imagined. The houses had hearths,beds,and even cupboards. Orkney had fertile soil and a warm climate. This made the land more profitable for the farmers. The residents of Orkney Built complex buildings that that they ever thought possible. The residents of Orkney used thousands of heavy Sand stones, then carried them several miles to a grassland. The walls they built were like the ones roman would have done to build the walls of Hadrian. One of the buildings was 80 feet long and 60 feet wide. The buildings had paved pathways, carved stonework, and the roofs were built of either sod,

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Just as inhabitants of Easter Island’s actions had devastating effects on their environment, in turn, their new environment had devastating effects on them and their quality of life declined. The lack of trees meant that their statues, an important part of their religion and culture, could not be built. Canoes also could no longer be built, which left the inhabitants unable to make long sea voyages for food and exploration. Removal of the tree cover also increased exposure and caused soil erosion and the leached out essential nutrients from the earth. As a result, the number of available food sources declined. Eventually, the last food source they had left were chickens, but this alone could not sustain the society. It became impossible to

Easter Island: is an island located in the South Pacific, part of Chile. Considered one of the most removed inhabited islands in the world. the island famous for many Balmway , a rocky statues now along the coastlines. Easter Island have removed hundreds of exotic statues similar, the scientists could not yet explain the riddle of this similar statues spread everywhere on the island, especially on the

The Polynesians discovered the barely sustainable Island of Rapa Nui, 4300 miles out of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, that they eventually destroyed. The Polynesians had the disadvantage to be living in one of the most fragile environments, at the highest risk of deforestation. Easter island being so alone makes it clear that's its a society that destroyed itself by lack of sustainability. Scientists believe that the Polynesian fisherman came to the island by accident in 1200 CE. The Polynesian settlers left behind There is other theorys suggesting the islanders from Tahiti discovered the island Rapa Nui first. The way the Polynesians cared for the land and used there resources was definitely not environmentally

My trip to Catalina Island was scheduled at a point when I had decided not to go to Hawaii this year. I thought of Catalina as my little beach trip in 2015. But then I changed my mind (I’m a woman, I’m allowed to) and decided to go to Hawaii in July. After coming back from HI, I had no interest on Catalina, but the weekend trip was already paid for.

My name is Oliver Kirby and I am a historian. For many years now I have been deeply invested in the study of South American and Polynesian history. The magazine ‘The Good Weekend’ approached me with an opportunity to write an article discussing the rise and expansion of Easter Island and then its decline. I will also be discussing if what happened to Easter Island is a microcosm of what might happen to the rest of the world.