Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park...

Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set...

663 ft) above mean sea level. There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but no...

heaviest ever erected on the island. Ahu Tongariki is one kilometer from Rano Raraku and Poike in the Hotu-iti area of Rapa Nui National Park. All the moai...

663 ft) above mean sea level. There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but no...

into the 1830s. By 1838, the only standing moai were on the slopes of Rano Raraku and Hoa Hakananai'a at Orongo. In about 60 years, islanders had damaged...

Tukuturi, a moai at Rano Raraku Outer slope of the Rano Raraku volcano, the quarry of the moai with many uncompleted statues. Rano Raraku volcano from the...

and lead a procession down the slope of Rano Kau to Anakena (if he was from the western clans) or Rano Raraku (if he was from the eastern clans). The...

tuff are routinely excavated for storage of wine barrels. Tuff from Rano Raraku was used by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island to make the vast majority...

Roa. Marama: received the lands between Anakena and Rano Raraku. Having access to the Rano Raraku quarry proved extremely useful for those living in Marama's...

It was not used to fashion the crouching moai Tukuturi at Rano Raraku, which is of Rano Raraku tuff. Archaeological excavations were carried out at Puna...

Moais at Rano Raraku (the Easter Island, Oceania), sculpted by Rapa Nui people...

giant stone statues (moai), the quarries at Rano Raraku and Puna Pau, the ceremonial village of Orongo on Rano Kau, as well as many other sites throughout...

west coast, in the lowlands between the extinct volcanoes of Terevaka and Rano Kau. Hanga Roa in the native Rapa Nui language means "wide bay" or "long...

Pyramid. The Moai statues of Easter Island were moved miles from the Rano Raraku quarry to their current locations, and archaeologists have wondered how...

from a local clan. Located in Rapa Nui National Park, the area includes Rano Raraku crater, the Ahu Tongariki site, and a small bay. In the 15th and 16th...

Old Testament, Book of Exodus, 24:4 (400 BC) Easter Island's Moai at Rano Raraku Inside the burial chamber at Mane Braz, Brittany, France Menhirs at the...

his admirers spread his ashes on Easter Island, in the rock quarry of Rano Raraku. Gordon Bennett Cup from 1936 Eagle of Szukalski on the Building of Disabled...

is currently mostly covered in grassland with nga'atu or bulrush (Schoenoplectus californicus tatora) in the crater lakes of Rano Raraku and Rano Kau....

except for a pond in a golf course), Honolulu, Oahu USA, Hawaii Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi (Ma′unga Terevaka) Chile, Easter Island Anatahan (intermittent...

Anthropological Museum, the ceremonial center Tahai, the quarries of Puna Pau and Rano Raraku, visiting the different ahus on the beaches of Anakena and Ovahe, seeing...

Moai set in the hillside at Rano Raraku on Easter Island...

2016. Skjølsvold, Arne "Report 14: The Stone Statues and Quarries of Rano Raraku in Thor Heyerdahl and Edwin N. Ferdon Jr. (eds.) 'Reports of the Norwegian...

Moai at Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)...

camps, one in the area of Mataveri and the other at the statue quarry, Rano Raraku and also explored Orongo and Anakena. With the help of an islander named...

shows a group of Moai buried to their shoulders on the outer slopes of Rano Raraku. 7 Cuiabá, Brazil Umahara Headdress of the Rikbaktsa people Very colorful...

Barbara A. Zeeb (1998). "The end of moai quarrying and its effect on Lake Rano Raraku, Easter Island". Journal of Paleolimnology. 20 (4): 409–422. Bibcode:1998JPall...

city of Easter Island, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to its north. The Rano Raraku quarry from where the statues were made is at least 15 kilometres (9...

Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island; a visit to Easter Island was where the composer gained inspiration for the composition....

There are numerous lesser cones and other volcanic features: the crater Rano Raraku, the cinder cone Puna Pau and many volcanic caves (including lava tubes)...