Main articles: Moai and Easter Island § Ahu (stone platforms)
Ahu Tongariki. The second moai from the right has a pukao on its head.All fifteen standing moai at Ahu Tongariki.
Ahu Tongariki (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈa.utoŋɡaˈɾiki]) is the largest ahu on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Its moais were toppled during the island's civil wars, and in the twentieth century the ahu was swept inland by a tsunami. It has since been restored and has fifteen moai, including one that weighs eighty-six tonnes, the 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 here face sunset during the winter solstice.
AhuTongariki (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈa.u toŋɡaˈɾiki]) is the largest ahu on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Its moais were toppled during the island's civil...
tons). The heaviest moai erected was a shorter but squatter moai at AhuTongariki, weighing 86 tonnes (85 long tons; 95 short tons). One unfinished sculpture...
standing moai at AhuTongariki, excavated and restored in the 1990s Ahu Akivi, one of the few inland ahu, with the only moai facing the ocean Ahu are stone platforms...
protect them. In modern times, moai have been restored at Anakena, AhuTongariki, Ahu Akivi and Hanga Roa. The first-recorded European contact with the...
rest on large stone platforms called ahu, the most famous of which are AhuTongariki, the largest ahu, and Ahu Vinapu. Some moai have hats of red volcanic...
ranging from camping sites to luxury hotels, including hotel Hanga Roa. The Ahu Tahai archaeological complex is within a walking distance from the city's...
to interview the natives and catalogue the moai (giant statues) and the Ahus they had once stood on. They excavated over 30 moai, visited the tribal elders...
978–993 AD, 57 feet (17 m) high Moai of Easter Island facing inland, AhuTongariki, c. 1250–1500, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in...
Easter Island to make the vast majority of their famous moai statues. AhuTongariki on Easter Island, with 15 moai made of tuff from Rano Raraku crater:...
possible that the legend recalls an actual conflict that took place north of Tongariki between these two 'nations', perhaps as early as the sixteenth century...
Birds) (1977) by Władysław Hasior in Koszalin, Poland AhuTongariki on Easter Island, a 15-moai ahu excavated and restored in the 1990s Laura Facey's Redemption...
Hōnaunau, Hawaii Māori poupou from the Ruato tomb of Rotorua Moai in AhuTongariki, Rapa Nui Toraja tau tau (wooden statue of the deceased) in South Sulawesi...
Tokyo Stock Exchange. They are also known by the project to restore the AhuTongariki Moai Statues on Easter island between 1992 and 1994. TADANO has been...
efforts to restore the Tongariki site on Rapa Nui. Tongariki was once the largest religious site in Polynesia, with a very large ahu supporting fifteen moai...
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