Statues on Easter Island, known in the native language as Rapa Nui ("Big Rapa") or Isla de Pascua in Spanish, an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile, and one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world. It was given its common name of "Easter" because it was discovered by the Dutch on Easter Sunday, 1722. The island is famous for its numerous moai, the stone statues now located along the coastlines. These large stone statues, or moai, were carved during a relatively short and intense burst of creative and productive megalithic activity. Archeologists now estimate that ceremonial site construction and statue carving took place largely between about AD 1100 and 1600 and may have consumed up to 25% of island-wide resources ?005 Credit:TopFoto / Fortean *** Local Caption ***