The Bunyip’s neighbour: the Moai and Rapa Nui

Nearly nine hundred stone giants stand on a speck of volcanic rock 3,500 kilometres from anywhere, carved by the Rapa Nui between roughly 1250 and 1500 and moved kilometres from the Rano Raraku quarry, where dozens remain half-cut in the rock face. Experiments have shown teams can “walk” a moai upright with ropes, matching the islanders’ own account that the statues walked. A Chilean UNESCO World Heritage site.