Here's some pics of Rano Raraku, where the Moai (big heads) were quarried. In the TerraSAR image, the crater of Rano Raraku is the prominent oval shape at the northeastern end of the island. The dark area in the middle of the crater is the lake inside the crater.
Classic:
Wikipedia:
Rano Raraku (shows the crater lake)
Google Maps is kinda strange; you can see the island close-up, because apparently it was targeted by DigitalEarth or GeoEye, but if you zoom out it gets blurry, so looking at it "regionally" it's hard to tell that there's high-resolution imagery of just the island. Zooming in to the highest magnification possible, the shadows of the Moai can be seen. You've got to be impressed with the technology.
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