Easter Island

Easter Island - A remote island in the Pacific Ocean and one site of the Avalon World Tour.

History

Its native name is Rapa Nui; its more familiar name was bestowed upon it by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who first sighted it on Easter Sunday in 1722 and named it "Easter Island" as a result. Easter Island is world-famous for its colossal stone heads, the "moai", raised by its now-extinct natives, which have become one of the world’s great mysteries.

In the Gargoyles Universe, Easter Island is the current headquarters of Nokkar, an alien Sentinel sent to Earth to watch over it during his people’s war with the Space-Spawn invaders. He arrived here at some point before the early 7th century A.D., and befriended the natives, sharing his mission with them. They built the "moai" in honor of him, modelling their features after his own. After the natives died out, Nokkar continued to watch over Easter Island, alone, before meeting Goliath, Elisa, Angela, and Bronx when the Avalon World Tour brought them there, and still carries out his Sentinel work today.