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Resources Resources | Books | Contributors Easter Island http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Isld_Pge.html Take a virtual tour of Easter Island. This site features beautiful photography of the moais. Kon-Tiki Web Server http://www.museumsnett.no/kon-tiki/ Explore scholarly papers from Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum and enjoy a welcome from Thor Heyerdahl himself. Polynesian Voyaging Society http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/ 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. Rapanui http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ogden/piir/pacific/Rapanui.html A paper on the people, government, economy, history, and more of Easter Island. This site includes many useful resources for visitors. Rapa Nui Outrigger Club http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/outrig.html An organization that gives young Rapa Nui people the opportunity to learn about their people's history while developing outrigger canoe paddling skills. Unofficial Easter Island Home Page http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html Information on Easter Island's history, culture and tourism. Check out the great list of web links. Zvi Shiller's Homepage http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~shiller 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. Books Easter 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 ETS Transport Company Rene Edmunds T and T Moving Tito Paoa Pelican Rope Works Gayl Whipple Krazan Associates, Inc. Dean Alexander A&A Ready Mixed Concrete, Inc. M3 Engineering Company J. Mehta CMI, Inc. McWharter Technologies Move a Megalith | Dispatches | Explore the Island | Lost Civilization Resources | E-mail | Table of Contents | Easter Island Home Editor's Picks | Previous Sites | Join Us/E-mail | TV/Web Schedule | About NOVA Watch NOVAs online | Teachers | Site Map | Shop | Search | To Print PBS Online | NOVA Online | WGBH © | Updated June 2002 |