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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.

Talia LakritzMar 9, 2023, 21:42 IST

A statue on Easter Island.David Slotnick/Business Insider

Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai.

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.

Statues on Easter Island.Annu Kostiainen/Shutterstock

It got its name after Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen spotted the island on Easter Sunday in 1722.

An 19th-century engraving depicting the Moai carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750.

Boats moored at a pier in Easter Island.MIGUEL CARRASCO/AFP via Getty Images

The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai.

Statues facing inland on Easter Island.Shutterstock / Bryan Busovicki

The statues were built in the late 1500s and early 1600s, though some date back as far as 1300.

A statue on Easter Island.David Slotnick/Business Insider

The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers.

The coastline of Easter Island.PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP via Getty Images

National Geographic reported in 2022 that there were 1,043 complete statues on Easter Island.

Tourists walk past a moai.Rafael Arancibia/picture alliance via Getty Images

In February, scientists found a previously undiscovered statue in a dry lake bed inside a volcanic crater.

Moai statue.Thomson Reuters

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