SUNKEN EMPIRE?
EASTER ISLAND THEORY. (Sun Special.) LONDON, May 24. Professor McMillan Brown, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, discussing in the “Manchester Guardian’’ his theory that Easter Island was once surrounded by archipelagoes, which sank between 1686 and 1722, said that Captain Ault, of the Carnegie, found scores of submarine island? round Easter Island. Professor McMillan Brown holds that Easter Island was once the necropolis of the great island empire, and that the great stone statues are portraits and busts of kings and chiefs.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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