Ahu Tongariki

A tsunami swept these statues inland

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All fifteen moai face the sunset at the winter solstice. Civil wars once toppled the statues, and a twentieth-century tsunami swept the ahu inland. Restoration returned the lineup, including an 86-tonne figure—the heaviest moai ever erected on the island.

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