Rapa Nui

American

[rah-puh noo-ee] / ˈrɑ pə ˈnu i /

noun

Easter Island.

Rapa Nui British

/ ˈrɑːpɑː ˈnuːɪ /

noun

the Polynesian name for Easter Island

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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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"It shows that the Rapa Nui people were incredibly smart. They figured this out," said Lipo.

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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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