Visiting Easter Island (Boat-Based)

Internet Links For This Section

Travel/Tourism and General Information

• Sernatur (Chilean National Tourism Service) - main site for all of Chile (in Spanish)
• Sernatur (Chilean National Tourism Service) - about Easter Island (in English)
• Easter Island Foundation - huge amount of interesting and useful information for visitors
• Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia - article about Easter Island
• Pacific Island Travel - big travel/tourism site with lots of information
• South Pacific .Org - basic travel/tourism site
• Easter Island History - brief summary of island history from BBC site
• Rapa Nui National Park - basic information from Chilean tourism site (in English)
• Rapa Nui National Park - World Heritage Site listing
• Easter Island Today - basic information about government, economy, island infrastructure, etc.
• Easter Island Home Page - basic travel/tourism information with internet links
• Rapa Nui Journal - occasional island newsletter

Archaeology and Restoration

• Easter Island Statue Project - big site with lots of information about a major ongoing archaeology project
• Polynesian Archaeology - summary of Polynesian archaeology
• How To Move and Erect a Moai - interesting information from PBS TV show
• Restoring Ahu Tongariki - information from the Japanese company that sponsored the restoration
• Deciphering Rongorongo - huge site with very detailed information about attempts to translate the strange written language
• Anthropological Museum - the local museum (mostly in Spanish)
• Stone Tools - rather technical article about archaeology, but has pictures of stone tools and fishhooks from Easter Island

Culture and Settlement of Polynesia

• Rapa Nui Folklore - the legend of the founding of the settlement by Hotu Matua
• Polynesian Voyaging to Rapa Nui - this site speculates on how settlers reached the island (it's normally upwind)
• Polynesian Voyaging Society - a group that preserves the knowledge and skills of Polynesian voyaging
• Rapa Nui Outrigger Canoe Club - a local club
• Polynesian Canoes - pictures of various types of Polynesian canoes
• Thor Heyerdahl's Settlement Theory - brief explanation of theory that South Americans settled Easter Island
• Easter Island Cannibalism - brief information about this practice

Miscellaneous

• Easter Island Resource Depletion - interesting article from Discover magazine
• Armada de Chile - web site of the Chilean Navy (in Spanish)
• Armada de Chile - a somewhat different version in English
• Submarino Simpson - brief information from the Armada site (in English)
• Simpson Arriving in Hawaii - picture from Wikipedia
• Tokerau - brief information about the pilot/rescue boat from the Armada site (in Spanish)
• Anchoring Techniques and Gear - from West Marine site, with diagrams
• Chain Stopper - picture of a chain stopper similar to the one on Nine of Cups
• White Haze in Antarctica - picture from Arctic scientist's personal site
• Orca Diving Center - popular local diving center, they helped us out when our dinghy flipped
• Volcanoes - good educational site with pictures and explanations
• Obsidian - basic information about this volcanic rock
• Rainbows - basic information about rainbows, including double and supernumerary rainbows
• Cara-cara Birds - from a birding site
• Government of Pitcairn Island - Easter Island's nearest inhabited neighbor