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Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island
At the age of forty, Katherine married a charismatic Australian adventurer, William Scoresby Routledge, and they built a ninety-foot, state-of-the-art yacht, christening her Mana, the Polynesian word for "spiritual power." From 1913 to 1915, Katherine and Scoresby led the Mana Expedition to Easter Island, where Katherine conducted the first-ever excavations of the island's world-famous stone statues. Katherine collected vast quantities of new information, which she faithfully transcribed into her journals and field notebooks. Through interviews with dozens of elderly men and women, she was able to save the history of the island, whose population was struggling back from the brink of extinction. Without Katherine's extraordinary efforts, Easter Island's traditional beliefs and customs would have been forever lost.

The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge
Easter Island, an unimaginably remote volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood prehistoric cultures, a people who vanished but left behind the giant statues known around the world...

Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island

Easter Island Map

Easter Island Mystery of the Stone Giants

Easter Island Giant Stone Statues Tell of a Rich and Tragic Past
Reading level: Ages 9-12

Chile & Easter Island
Chile is bordered by the Pacific ocean to the west and separated from the rest of South America by the Andes mountains. Nearly three thousand miles in length and rarely more than a hundred miles wide, Chile stretches from the tropics almost to Antarctica. Traveler Ian Wright begins his journey in the scorching aridity of the Atacama Desert. He then moves south to the capital, Santiago, before taking a train to visit the indigenous Mapuche Indians. He travels across the outstanding glacier-streamed mountains of Torres del Paine National Park. Via Robinson Crusoe Island, he flies to Easter Island and ends his journey on one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth.

Along the way...

See ancient mummies with their glossy black hair still neatly braided.
Watch dawn break over the highest geyser field in the world.
Learn how to head llamas.
Observe the stars through the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere.
See the colossal Maoi on Easter Island, among the most fascinating archaeological mysteries of all time.

Secrets of the Lost Empires II: Easter Island
VHS

Rapa Nui
VHS

Mysteries of Easter Island
VHS
Isolated 2,200 miles west of Chile in the Pacific, Easter Island is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world. Famous for its ancient, giant stone statues, its people struggle to retain their past, while grappling with the future. See how overpopulation and environmental degradation nearly destroyed it.