3,700 kilometres west of South America and 1,000 from the nearest habitable Pacific island, Rapa Nui or Easter Island is the world's most remote inhabited island. Subscribe to Our History: [ Ссылка ]

Its first European visitors in 1722 were astonished to find it covered with hundreds of huge statues which the inhabitants call Moai. This programme asks questions to which, in almost 300 years, no conclusive answers have been found - so who built the Moai? The programme includes colourful views of the countless experts of the past who pondered the mystery of the Moai in the two centuries after their discovery became the talk of the world.

This film was first broadcast: 1996

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