The statues of Easter Island famously perplexed explorers for decades. How did they get there? Who built them? It took a while to piece to together the jigsaw, but eventually it was discovered that Easter Island was once a thriving civilisation in the first millennium.

But due to deforestation, overpopulation and disease the community of Polynesians, the early Rapa Nui people, eventually died out, leaving behind these 887 remarkable statues – now a UNESCO world heritage site.