Find out about this organization, which
investigates how the Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled the
islands of the Pacific. Learn about what it's like to live for a month
on board a replica of an ancient voyaging canoe.
An organization that gives young Rapa Nui people the opportunity to learn
about their people's history while developing outrigger canoe paddling
skills.
Read about Zvi Shiller's motion planning research and how it is being
applied to the moai moving experiment featured in this NOVA Online
Adventure. For more on this subject, check out The Plan.
BooksEaster Island: Archaeology, Ecology, and Culture
by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and John Mack
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
Easter Island, Earth Island
by Paul Bahn and John Flenley
Thames and Hudson, 1992
Easter Island - Island of Enigmas
by John Dos Passos
Doubleday & Company, 1971
Easter Island: Mystery of the Stone Giants
by Catherine and Michel Orliac
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1995
Easter Island: The Mystery Solved
by Thor Heyerdahl
Stoddard Publishing Co., 1989
The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen
edited by Andrew Sharp
Oxford University Press, 1970
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific By Raft
by Thor Heyerdahl
Pocket Books, 1950
The Modernization of Easter Island
by J. Douglas Porteous
Western Geographical Series Vol. 19
Department of Geography, University of Victoria, 1981
The Mystery of Easter Island - The Story of an Expedition
by Mrs. Scoresby
Routledge (Katherine Routledge)
Sifton, Praed & Co., 1919
Vaka: Saga of a Polynesian Canoe
by Tom Davis and Pa Tuterangi Ariki
Institute of Pacific Studies/Polynesian Press, University of the South
Pacific/Samoa House, Rarotonga and Suva/Auckland, 1992 Vikings of the Sunrise
New Zealand edition
by Sir Peter Buck
Whitcombe and Tombs, 1954
Voyagers
1st ed.
by Herb Kawainui Kane
Managing Editors Robert B. Goodman and Lorie Rapkin
WhaleSong Inc., 1991
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
by David Lewis, edited by Sir Derek Oulton
University of Hawaii Press, 1994
Contributors
Following is a list of companies that have contributed vital materials and
other resources to the attempt to move and erect a moai on Easter Island.
The Boeing Company
Ted Ralston
Steve Chesser
Dave Uingling
Rick Pierce
Rob Jonietz
Golden Bear Arborists
Don Kniss
Foam Matrix
Kent Sherwood
Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, Architects
Johannes Van Tilburg
Mike Ohara
Valverde Construction Company
Joe Valverde
Dave Ane
