Ahu Tongariki Site-Emblem T-Shirt, Easter Island

The row of fifteen moai on Ahu Tongariki's rebuilt platform, backs to the Pacific, printed beside a diagram of the walking-statue experiment that finally explained how they moved. Beneath it: Ahu Tongariki, Chile, -27.12584, -109.27664, our own catalogued coordinates for a monument toppled by a 1960 tsunami and rebuilt stone by stone in the 1990s.

• Row-of-fifteen moai silhouette, the largest single gathering on the island
• Diagram of the rocking-and-walking transport method, with an honest note on our coverage limits in the Pacific
• Exact coordinates (-27.12584, -109.27664) printed beneath the monument and country
• Soft, pre-shrunk cotton in a minimalist gold-on-dark line-art treatment

Why this site. Rapa Nui islanders always said the moai walked to their platforms. For decades that was treated as folklore, until experiments showed that a handful of people with three ropes can rock a multi-tonne statue forward, and it does look exactly like walking. The oral tradition was right and the outside experts were wrong. We make no alignment claim here: our atlas holds two catalogued sites within 200 kilometres, so there is nothing for the engine to measure. Polynesia is one of our thinnest regions.

Ahu Tongariki · Chile · 27°07'33.0"S 109°16'35.9"W