Completar frases Easter IslandVersión en línea Read the text and choose the correct word for each space by clicking on it. por Aoife Casey 1 own arrived found in until discovered enough from famous of Easter Island is a small triangle of rock situated the Pacific Ocean . It's about 2 , 000 miles the nearest city . Easter Island is for its statues . Hundreds of these huge , stone faces can be all over the island . Who made them ? How did they move these giant pieces rock ? What happened to the people who lived there ? Studies show that people first on the island about 1600 years ago . They had a very advanced culture . They made many objects and they had their written language . However , the number of people on the island grew and grew it reached about 10 , 000 people . Soon there were too many people and there wasn't food to eat . A terrible war started and many of the statues were broken . When western explorers the island on Easter Day in 1722 , the huge rock statues were the only sign that a great society had once lived there .