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Resources Links | Books | Contributors | Special Thanks | Credits Links Easter Island http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/index.html Take a virtual tour of Easter Island. This site features beautiful photography of the moais. Kon-Tiki Museum http://www.museumsnett.no/kon-tiki/index.html 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 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 Easter Island's people, government, economy, history, and more. This site includes many useful resources for visitors. Rapa Nui Outrigger Club http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/outrig.html An organization that gives young Rapanui 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 was applied to the moai moving experiment featured in NOVA's Online Adventure to Easter Island. National Engineers Week, February 20-26, 2000 http://www.eweek.org The National Engineers Week Committee unveils plans for its 49th meeting which include numerous activities to showcase new projects and programs intended to spread the message of engineering's importance to society. The site also provides adolescents with an opprtunity to investigate a host of engineering achievements designed to inspire their interest in engineering. 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 By Sir Peter Buck. New Zealand edition, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1954. Voyagers 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. Secrets of Lost Empires Family Activity Book by WGBH Boston's Educational Print and Outreach Department. Kids ages 9-12 and their families can explore the once-mighty civilizations featured in the Secrets of Lost Empires series with this fully illustrated, 32-page book. Just $4.95 to cover shipping and handling. Call 1-800-949-8670 or write to: WGBH Boston Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407-2284. 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 Special Thanks Liesl Clark Vince Lee Credits Lauren Aguirre, Senior Producer Molly Frey, Technologist Dennis Gaffney, Producer Rick Groleau, Hot Science Developer Karen Hartley, Classroom Resources Developer Tyler Howe, Assistant Designer Brenden Kootsey, Technologist Chesley Lowe, Illustrator Rob Meyer, Production Assistant Carla Raimer, Associate Producer Peter Tyson, Producer Annie Valva, Director of Technology Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer Vince Lee's Uphill Battle | NOVA Moves a Megalith | How Big Were They? Move the Moai | Explore Easter Island | Secrets of Easter Island | Resources | Transcript Medieval Siege | Pharaoh's Obelisk | Easter Island | Roman Bath | China Bridge | Site Map Editor's Picks | Previous Sites | Join Us/E-mail | TV/Web Schedule About NOVA | Teachers | Site Map | Shop | Jobs | Search | To print PBS Online | NOVA Online | WGBH © | Updated November 2000 |