The Stone Staues of Easter Island Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found there. It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have taken a minimum of two weeks, covering several thousand miles of seemingly endless ocean. It is clear, however, that the original inhabitants …showed first 75 words of 1620 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1620 total…construct a digital version of an average moai. This digital statue has informed her hypothesis for a potential transport method for moving the moai; the statue which Van Tilburg's team will attempt to move and erect has been made to the exact dimensions of this digital moai. The dimensions are 13.29 ft high, 5.25 ft wide at the base, 4.86 ft wide at the head, 6.04 ft deep through body, total volume of 210.48 cubic ft, and weighs 13.78 tons.