By Stephen Beech

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research.

The iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently of each other, suggests state of the art computer modeling.

Now the first-of-its-kind high-resolution 3D model lets people explore the famous Easter Island statues up close from the comfort of their own home.

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island - also known by the indigenous Polynesian name of Rapa Nui - is one of the world's most remote inhabited places.

To visit it and marvel at the quarries where hundreds of the iconic moai statues were created is a luxury few get to experience.

But now people can explore Rano Raraku

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