Monday, April 23, 2007

Easter Island




The Easter Island is located in the South Pacific and belongs to Chile. It has three volcanoes, Poike, Rano Kau and Terevaka.
It is most famous for its Moai, the stone statues now located along the coastlines. It gets its name of "Easter" because the first recorded European visit by a Dutch Admiral was Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday, 1722. The population is 3,791.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

My Godfather Hosts Royalty

My Godfather is the co-director of INPE, National Institute for Space Research, in Brazil. Just yesterday, he gave Prince Andrew of England, 4th in line of the English throne, a tour of the INPE headquarters.