
Why Did Easter Island's Civilization Collapse?
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Rapa Nui - The Island That We Know Today
The island they landed on was potentially, they think, much different than the island that we know today. If you go there today, it's you're going to see some white sandy beaches and not a lot of trees. They believe that there could have been as many as 16 million palm trees at first. The waters around there are low in nutrients, so no coral reefs. And that means not aA lot of fish. So if you went fishing, you had to go deep sea fishing away from the island. But again, yeah, like get a dolphin. That's what they ate.
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