Easter Island, 500 Rongo, Year 2011, Polymer Notes South America

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Easter Island, 500 Rongo, Year 2011,Polymer Note

Eastern Pacific Ocean, at the southEasternmost point of thePolynesian Triangle.Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, calledmoai,created by the earlyRapa Nui people. In 1995,UNESCOnamedEaster Island aWorld Heritage Site,with much of the island protected withinRapa Nui NationalPark.

Easter Island in thefirst millennium CE, and created a thrivingculture, as evidenced by themoaiand other artifacts. However, humanactivity, the introduction of thePolynesian ratandoverpopulationled to gradualdeforestationand extinction of natural resources,which caused the demise of the Rapa Nui civilization.[citationneeded]Bythe time of European arrival in 1722, the island\'s population had dropped to2,000–3,000 from a high of approximately 15,000 just a century earlier.Diseases carried by European sailors andPeruvianslave raidingof the 1860s further reduced the RapaNui population, down to 111 in 1877.[5]