https://www.eisp.org Easter Island Statue Project Official Website Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:34:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://www.eisp.org/3126/ https://www.eisp.org/3126/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 19:47:20 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=3126 Reviewing the copious literature dealing with Easter Island, many conflicting figures for the land surface of the island are published. All of them are clearly inaccurate. Given that many colleagues and interested people consult about this problem, we are now updating this information using the best available maps and techniques. The surface of Easter Island […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/3126/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/120/ https://www.eisp.org/120/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:56:33 +0000 http://www.alicehom.com/wp/?p=120 Location Lying isolated in the East Pacific, in an extreme windward position, Rapa Nui is the easternmost Polynesian island. It is in the Southern Hemisphere at 27° 9’ S latitude, 109° 26’ W longitude. Situated on the Nazca Plate at a volcanic and tectonic “hot spot,” it is 3703 km west of South America and […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/120/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/2554/ https://www.eisp.org/2554/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 20:44:40 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=2554 Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg’s work has been featured in the following programs: BYU Radio, Top of Mind with Juile Rose, July 1, 2019 NPR Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Bluff the Listener segment, May 4, 2019. “Easter Island’s famous moai statues slowly fading away”, CBS 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper, April 21, 2019. “Can […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/2554/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1434/ https://www.eisp.org/1434/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 20:33:02 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1434 by Christopher Weeks,  December 8, 2003 On a map of the Pacific Ocean, Easter Island is a dot – just fifteen miles wide at its longest dimension – in the middle of nowhere. Located two thousand four hundred miles west of South America and almost two thousand miles east of the nearest populated islands of […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1434/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1418/ https://www.eisp.org/1418/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 20:16:11 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1418 EASTER ISLAND, The LONELIEST WORLD EVER SETTLED By MAN By Francis B. Randall My cup runneth over.  Thirty three years ago I had the great good fortune to visit Easter Island, and now I have come back from an almost unimaginable (and undeserved) second visit to the loneliest world ever settled by man.  Let me […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1418/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/716/ https://www.eisp.org/716/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 04:12:35 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=716 Mata Hoe Vaka Kahu Kahu O Hera Rapa Nui Mata Hoe Vaka and Rapa Nui Outrigger Club During the 1989 field season, anthropologist Dr. Ben Finney visited Rapa Nui. He gave a lecture in the school auditorium about Hokule’a, the great replica Polynesian voyaging canoe. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg agreed with Finney and then-Governor […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/716/feed/ 0