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58km
of chiseled, dented, ripped, and isolated coastline. A small
arid area resting in the vastness of the South Pacific. A mixture
of volcanic earth and rocks, craters, caves, hills, plateaux and
plains, swept by wind.
This
geographical situation and the unique landscape of Easter Island,
always described as being inhospitable, couldn't in themselves provide
a reason for the sense of fascination and mystery it has
evoked in the past as well as today with foreign cultures. Fascination
of the Dutchman Roggeween on an Easter Sunday, the 5th of April
1722, when he first spotted these enormous statues know as Moai,
of Haedo in 1770 (he drew the first map of the island), Cook (1774)
La Perouse (1746).
Finally and especially a sense of fascination and mystery for a
land, virutally merging into the sea and sky where colours change
by the moment with every shift of the wind.
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