Might be wrong here, but I read about this in a comics book in my childhood, and the idea that Easter Island regularly goes under water and emerges after XX years is still there......
2007-10-31 09:22:50 · 9 answers · asked by Olga 2 in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
Michael M, please give the sarcastic answer next time :)
2007-10-31 09:31:07 · update #1
Tahini, thanks for the link!
2007-11-01 00:06:57 · update #2
Yes, it does: always when it's heavily raining ;-)
But it doesn't get submerged on a regular basis - at least on a historical time scale. Even by a global sea level rise (ca. 70 m if all ice in Greenland and Antartica was melted) the higher regions will still be land (highest peak is 507 m).
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Easter_Island_map-fr.svg
Some myths about periodically submerged islands resulted from inaccurate information about the islands geographic position. If seafarers didn't find the island by their (wrong) maps they thought it could be under water. But nowadays with GPS and satellite maps navigation has been improved.
2007-10-31 10:35:28 · answer #1 · answered by Ken Guru MacRopus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False.
Sounds like the comic book author mixed a little of Easter Island with a little bit of the Bay of Fundy -- an incredible part of Nova Scotia where the tide drops and rises in phenomonal
ways.
bayoffundy.com
2007-10-31 09:28:32 · answer #2 · answered by annarborisatramp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being a ex merchant seaman we used to pass easter island on a regular basis its a very ghostly type of place and for some reason i always felt uncomfortable looking at the giant heads comming out of the ground but i dont ever recall it ever being under water but it could be a different matter with climate change.........seamanab
2007-10-31 09:39:59 · answer #3 · answered by seamanab 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Rapanui/ Easter Island makes a perfectly safe place to even build hotels and petrol stations (nobody would have dared, if it were to submerge periodically).
This website answers pretty much most questions about it:
http://www.netaxs.com/trance/rapanui.html
2007-10-31 09:29:47 · answer #4 · answered by Tahini Classic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to give a sarcastis answer, but i'll be nice.
Easter island does not go under water.
2007-10-31 09:27:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
False.
2007-10-31 09:25:07 · answer #6 · answered by IrishFan2011 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will go under if we lose the snow packs at the poles, and Greenland, but so will NYC.
2007-10-31 09:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by redd headd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the bunnies jumping up and down during mating season.
2007-10-31 09:25:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats wrong there.... it never goes under water
2007-10-31 09:27:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋