Easter Island: Mystery, Moai, and the Edge of the World (English Vocabulary Lesson)

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Thinking in English podcast, a podcast for Intimidia to advance level English learners. Imagine living in a place so remote that the nearest inhabited land

is over 2,000 kilometers away. No neighbors, no escape, just ocean in every direction. And across the island are hundreds of giant stone heads carved by hand. This place exists and people have lived there for centuries. This episode

will look at Easter Island or Rappanui as it is known locally. Easter Island is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One of the most isolated inhabited islands on earth and home to hundreds of giant stone heads. So how did humans get there? How did people cross vast oceans to reach this tiny volcanic island, and then decide to stay? And how did they organize a society capable of

carving and moving some of the largest stone statues ever created. In today's episode of Thinking in English, we are travelling to the edge of the world to explore one of the most fascinating human stories ever told and we'll learn some English vocabulary along the way. There is an ad-free version of this episode, audio and video on my Patreon,

the link is in the description. Here is today's vocabulary list. Remote. Remote. Far away from other places, especially cities or populated areas. As in, Easter Island is so remote that the nearest inhabited land is thousands of kilometres away. Polynesian, Polynesian, related to the people who settled many Pacific islands, including

Easter Island. As in, the Polynesian settlers reached Easter Island using advanced navigation skills. Navigator Navigator, a person skilled at finding routes across land or sea, especially over-long distances. For example, Polynesian navigators cross the Pacific Ocean without maps or compasses. Ancestor Ancestor A person from whom one is descended often honoured in traditional

societies. As in, the Moi were built to represent important ancestors. Clam. Clam. A large family group sharing common ancestors. For example, each clan on the island built Moi to show power and honour its ancestors. Collaps collapse the breakdown or failure of a society or system. For example, European disease and slavery played a major role in

the population collapse. Heritage, heritage, cultural traditions, objects and history passed down for generations. As in, the Moai are a central part of rapper-newy cultural heritage. Where exactly is Easter Island? Geographically, Easter Island sits in the South Eastern Pacific Ocean. On a map, it almost looks like a mistake.

It is a tiny triangle of land floating alone in a massive blue space. Today it's officially a territory of Chile, but that doesn't mean it's close to Chile. In fact, mainland Chile is over 3,500 kilometres away. To put that into perspective, if you travel from London to Moscow, you'd still be closer

home than Easter Island is too chilly. The closest inhabited island to Easter Island is Pits Kern Island, which is more than 2,000 kilometres away. And Pit Kern Island is also one of the most isolated places on Earth with a tiny population. I actually have an old episode about Pit Kern Island. everywhere you look around Easter Island, there is ocean, there are no nearby islands, there's

just water. When a group of people or a community lives in a place so remote, everything becomes important, trees and food, fresh water, and the survival of people are vital. There's no easy way to leave, and there's no simple way to recover from an emergency or a disaster. I should also talk a little bit about the name. In most European languages, the island is called

Easter Island. It is now part of Chile, a Spanish-speaking country, so commonly called Isle de Pascua, which probably I've mispronounced, but means Easter Island in Spanish. However, the Polynesian name for the island is Rappanui, which means big-noui. And the term When Rappanui is also used to refer to the people of the island as well, so in this episode

I will use Easter Island and Rappanui to describe the island. The people of Easter Island are Polynesian. Polynesians were a group of seafaring people whose ancestors originally came from South East Asia.

Over thousands of years they gradually moved eastward into the Pacific Ocean. settled on islands that were separated by vast distances of open water. This was a long process of migration and expansion. From their early centres in Taiwan and then the Philippines, the Polynesian people spread through Melanesia and into the Central Pacific. By around the year

A 1,000 Polynesians had settled islands across what is called the Polynesian Triangle. This includes Hawaii in the north, New Zealand in the south, and eastern island in the east. Along the way, they settled and developed cultures in places like Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, and the Cook Islands. Polynesians were among the greatest navigators the world has ever known.

They crossed thousands of kilometers of open ocean in a large, double-holded canoes, without compasses, maps or modern instruments. The often carried plants with them and animals, tools, and took their entire families.