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Easter Island, its history vanishing

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Easter Island and its mysterious history are slowly disappearing under rising seas.
In recent years, waves have begun to reach dozens of ancient statues that are dotted around the island's coast.
Many believe these stone statues, carved between 1100 and 1680, could hold clues as to why and how Easter Island's civilisation collapsed centuries ago.
But the UN has warned they could be engulfed by waves entirely, with sea levels set to rise as much as six feet by 2100.
Nicholas Casey, a New York Times correspondent based in Columbia visited the remote island
in Chile and wrote an in-depth feature on the issues facing it.
Nobody really knows how the colossal stone statues that guard Easter Island were moved into position.
We also don't know why during the decades following the island's discovery by Dutch explorers in 1722, each statue was systematically toppled, or how the population of Rapa Nui islanders was decimated.
Shrouded in mystery, this tiny triangular landmass sits in the middle of the South Pacific, 1,289 miles from its nearest neighbour.
The remains "could add more data to show it's not a simple or straightforward answer to what happened," said Jane Downes, a professor of archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
However, the landscape is quickly changing and soon these statues could
be gone forever, taking with them any clues about what happened to this civilisation.
“You feel an impotency in this, to not be able to protect thebonesofyour own ancestors," Camilo Rapu, the head of the indigenous organisation that controls Rapa Nui National Park on the island told Casey.
" It hurts immensely."
Easter Island has just 6,000 residents and more than 100,000 visitors each year, injecting up to $70 million (£50 million) into the economy each year.
The 887 statues gaze inland across the island with an average height of 13ft (four metres).
Many of the most important statues are on the coast.
Three of the main ones - Tongariki; home to a line of monoliths, Anakena; the sandy beach and Akahanga; the ancient platforms - are at risk of being eroded by rising seas, scientists warn.