Photos, videos and docs of Jaap van 't Veen, with the keywords: "Chile"

Chile - Easter Island, Rano Raraku

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:59:47 +0000

Rano Raraku is a site on the slope of a volcano (PiP1 and 2), which was the statue ‘factory’ of Easter Island. It was the birthplace of a Neolithic culture’s progency. This is the quarry, where the moai (monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people) were carved in the volcanic rock and transported over the island.

There are still about 400 statues in various states of completion (PiP 3,4 and 5): from rectangular blocks barely discernable in the rock face to mostly completed moai, held in the matrix of the rock by a mere keel, to completed moai standing largely buried on the slope. Among them the unique kneeling moai Tukuturi (PiP6) with a shape and design different from all other moai and Te Tokanga or Ko Teto Kena, the largest moai ever carved with a height of 20 meters and weight of (estimated) 270 tons (PiP7).

More pictures of Easter Island: www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/43947814 and www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/45938804

Chile - Easter Island, Ahu Tongariki

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:59:03 +0000

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Easter Island - or Rapa Nui as the locals call their island - is well known for its moai, the great carved stone statues staring stonily across the island’s barren hills. The islanders used stone tools to carve a statue out of volcanic tuff. The statues were secured by bark rope attached to tree trunk capstans at the top of the ‘moai factory’. Then they were lowered down the slope into pits where, upstanding right, they were carved in the familiar shape. From there they were transported over the island to their final resting places.

Each statue was carved to represent a specific deified ancestor - moai means “for the progeny” or “for the descendants” - that’s why there are no two statues alike. There are almost 900 moai recorded on Rapa Nui; almost 400 still in the quarry, between 164 and 288 on an ahu (a raised rectangular platform used as a place of worship) and 200 remain on the spot were they fell or were left during transport. The average moai weighs 12,5 tons and stands 4 metres high.

The largest site on Rapa Nui with standing moai is Ahu Tongariki. It has fifteen stone statues lined up and also the largest moai ever erected on the island with a weight of more than 86 tons. One of them is wearing a so called pukao, topknots or hats. They were carved out of a relatively soft red volcanic stone and number around a hundred.

The fifteen moai were toppled in the 17th century, as were all other of these statues on the island, during a tribal war. An earthquake off the coast of Chile in 1960 produced a tsunami that tossed the moai of Ahu Tongariki - some weighing up to 30 tons - more than 600 metres inland. In October 1992 an agreement was signed between the Government of Chile and the Moai Restoration Committee of Japan to restore Ahu Tongariki, which as finally completed in 1996.

Chile - Punta Arenas / Seno Otway Penguin Reserve

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:59:50 +0000

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Penguin chick just left its burrow for a couple of seconds, so I could take this picture from nearby.

Magellan penguins live 25-30 years and always come back to the place where they were born for the mating season. They usually have one or two offsprings. Males and females take turns to watch and feed the little ones. They swim for food every eight hours and dive 30 to 35 metres deep. Couples are always the same and they come back to the colony only for the reproduction season.

The Seno Otway Penguin Colony is located 65km from Punta Arenas , in the southern part of Chile and can be visited through a self guided. There is a wooded trail of about 1 ½ km with a couple of observation points. During our visit (more or less summer) it was freezing cold and very windy.

Chile - Torres del Paine, Lago Grey

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:03:40 +0000

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Icebergs in Grey Lake, calved from the Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine National Park,

Made this picture in a freezing storm; it was so COLD there.