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New Easter Island Moai statue discovered in volcano crater

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News websites
  • 2 Mar 2023 09:19
2 Min Read

A 1.6-meter Moai statue has been discovered with ‘full-bodied recognizable features but no clear definition.'

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  • A 1.6-metre moai that was discovered in the dried bed of the Rano Raraku lake on Easter Island. (AFP)
    A 1.6-meter Moai that was discovered in the dried bed of the Rano Raraku lake on Easter Island. (AFP)

One of Easter Island's iconic monolithic statues, a new Moai, has been found in the bed of a dry lake in a volcano crater by the Indigenous community that manages the site on the Chilean island.

A team of scientific volunteers from three Chilean universities discovered a statue on February 21st while collaborating on a project to restore the marshland in the crater inside the Rano Raraku volcano.  “This Moai has great potential for scientific and natural studies – it’s a really unique discovery as it’s the first time that a Moai has been discovered inside a laguna [lake] in a Rano Raraku crater,” the Ma’u Henua Indigenous community said in a statement on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, several Moai suffered charring in an October forest fire on the island, which is also called Rapa Nui and lies 3,000 km west of Chile. “This Moai is in the centre of a laguna that began drying up in 2018,” said the director of the Ma’u Henua community that administers the Rapa Nui national park, where the volcano is found.

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“The interesting thing is that, for at least the last 200 or 300 years, the laguna was three meters deep, meaning no human being could have left the Moai there in that time.”

At the Rano Raraku volcano, the monolithic carved stone figures with elongated faces and no legs that were mostly quarried from tuff, a kind of volcanic ash. This Moai is 1.60 meters tall and was found on its side looking at the sky.

The Ma’u Henua statement said the figure has recognizable features but no clear definition, adding that the group was looking for financial aid to carry out a more extensive study on the discovery. However, there were “no plans to remove the Moai from where it is”.

The Rano Raraku volcano and its Moai are a Unesco world heritage site. Easter Island was long inhabited by Polynesian people before Chile annexed it in 1888.

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