Polynesia

This paper is about the Chile and Easter Island.The Easter Island is right off the west coast of Chile.It is 2,700 km or 2,300 miles. This island is very isolated and inhabited with only 5,761 people living there(in 2012). The area of this island is 63.17 mi2. Easter Island’s capital is Hanga Roa. This island is famed for the wonderful archaeological sites with around 900 monumental statues. These statues were made between the 10th -16th century, They are called moai, having large heads and…

The Easter Island or Isla de Pascua covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean 2,300 miles from Chiles west coast. It currently has 887 still existing statues averaging 13 feet tall carved out of tuff which is the light, porous rock formed by consolidated volcanic ash on the island which proved that there was a rich culture among the settlers which first discovered it. These staues were placed on ceremonial stone platforms called ahus however till this day there is no information…

To many of us, Fiji is just another exotic island in the Pacific. However, there’s so much to experience on this island, that it’s a shame more people aren’t aware of its unique culture and history. 1. The nation of over a hundred islands, and smiles! Despite what many people assume, the Republic of Fiji is actually made up of over 300 islands of various sizes, out of which, only 110 are inhabited. Most of its people live on the largest island Viti Levu. While there are plenty of beautiful…

Fiji (Fiji: Viti, Fiji Hindi:), officially the Republic of Fiji, an island in the Melanesia in the South Pacific, which extends about 1,100 nautical miles and to (2,000 km, 1,300 miles) to the northeast of the island North in New Zealand. Located next to the Vanuatu island of Fiji to the west, and New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec Islands to the southeast and to the east of Tonga, Samoa and Wallis and Futuna to the north-east France, and Tuvalu to the north. The country has…

In the South Pacific, 1,400 miles from the continent of Australia, lies two that make up the country of New Zealand. Known for its natural beauty, exotic birds and a unique Polynesian group called the native people or Maori in their language. Because of the isolation from the rest of the world, the Maori evolved a distinctive warrior culture and developed their own folklore and art forms. One of these art form is Pounamu carvings which are unique only to the Maori culture. Inspired by the exotic…

Today, January 13th, 2017 marks the first full week back at Trent University after the Holiday break. While I was on this break I could never fully relax because of one particular reason. In December I went to the Galaxy Cinema in Peterborough where my friends and I saw the highly anticipated Disney movie Moana. This movie at first sight was an encouraging representation of Indigenous culture, more specifically Polynesian culture, however, after the movie there were some conflicting thoughts…

During 330 B.C., an explorer Pytheas discovered Iceland after he sailed north from Marseilles, modern day France. After sailing around the British Isles, he reached Iceland in which he named Thule or Ultima Thule. The earliest inhabitants in Iceland were Irish hermits or monks who settled there during the eighth century. Around 870-930 A.D. the Viking or Norsemen began their migration to Iceland, as a result the Irish hermits left the island. Written in the 12th century, the Landnamabok (Book…

Easter Island was quite an experience of a new location for settlers and showed the inadequate use of resources that were accessible to the new inhabitants. It showed how desperate and inhumane people became at the extinction of valuable resources on this island. These new owners of land were quickly befallen at the expense of most of their lives and all of the natural resources. The main idea of internal collapse focuses on the issues that man has faced since the beginning of sharpening a…

Easter Island can be a representation of today’s modern world view and actions. Historians speculate that the people from Easter Island became extinct due to the society using too many resources too quickly. Due to the island being so being so remote they only had a small amount of resources that they could use. With the people not realizing that they have a limited resource base they used many trees to move a lot of the stones around the island. This is what caused a chain of events to occur.…

Moai Statues I believe that the Moai statues were rolled in stead of walked. I say this because one they did have enough people to roll the statues. Two they could have cut down trees to roll the statues on. Lastly if they used the walking method for the statues, the statues could have been destroyed. Now I will go into my first reason which is they used trees. In the article it states that they cut down alot of trees to roll the statues on. I believe that they can use the same word over and…