Easter Island is in the Pacific Ocean and its longitude is about 109 degrees west. It's most famous for the spooky statues. I didn't realise there were so many of them - over 900. All fairly similar stylised heads of inscrutable looking people. Apparently the people who made them arrived on the uninhabited island in about 800 AD. They erected all these statues and then disappeared very abruptly leaving some statues half finished. No one knows why.
Today Easter Island's main exports are garden ornaments and ,of course, Easter Eggs.
One little known fact about Easter Island is that it is closer to Kingsdown in Bristol than it is to Greenbank.
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Damn. If I'd claimed to be visitor 1000 I would have won easily.
I thought the Easter Islanders died out after cutting down all their forests in an effort to build as many really, really large garden ornaments as possible. Either that or they ate too many Easter eggs and died of diarrohea. What's that? Chocolate doesn't give you diarrhoea? Well it should.
Yes, but Baruch put a photo on his site to prove it.
And it's disputed. I'm facing possible legal action from another claimant.
Did you know that Cadbury's have had to withdraw all their chocolate in the UK as it's full of salmonella?
Yeah, it was on Armando Ianuchi on Friday.
"Why did they have a salmonella pipe running through their chocolate factory?" and all that. Balls. I could have linked that into my previous comment in order to make it more topical.
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