The Moai
The statues are called the Moai. The Rapa Nui people on an island in eastern Polynesia carved these monoliths. They built hundreds of them between 1250 and 1500. Visitors can find most of them at Rano Raraku. Given their size and height (the tallest is 33 feet, and the heaviest was 80.7 tons), archeologists still debate how the Rapa Nui moved them.