| [00:00.24] | Just 13 miles long and seven miles wide, |
| [00:03.95] | Easter Island rises like a fortress from the waves, surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean in every direction. |
| [00:11.90] | People first arrived here less than 1,000 years ago. |
| [00:15.64] | Most of what we know about their civilisation can only be pieced together from the relics that remain. |
| [00:22.10] | It is a strange and desolate place. |
| [00:25.38] | The most striking features in this bleak and windswept landscape are the hundreds of giant stone statues, known as moai, |
| [00:34.52] | thought to be carved in the likeness of chiefs or ancestors. |
| [00:38.53] | It's difficult to believe that an advanced culture capable of carving and erecting these monoliths grew up in such a barren landscape. |
| [00:47.40] | The truth is, it didn't. |
| [00:49.50] | When those first colonisers discovered Easter Island, this was a paradise. |
| [00:55.18] | These empty cliffs were once home to the largest seabird colonies in the South Pacific. |
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