Rapa Nui

[rah-puh noo-ee]

noun

1. Easter Island.

Rapa Nui

/ ˈrɑːpɑː ˈnuːɪ /

noun

1. the Polynesian name for Easter Island

Example Sentences

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues.

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Studying nearly 1,000 moai statues, Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo and the University of Arizona's Terry Hunt found that the people of Rapa Nui likely used rope and "walked" the giant statues in a zig-zag motion along carefully designed roads.

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Adding to the support for this theory are the roads of Rapa Nui.

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Lipo said Rapa Nui is notorious for wild theories backed by zero evidence.

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Lipo said that the research also honors the people of Rapa Nui, who achieved a monumental engineering feat with limited resources.

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