Editing Terror Island (section)

====Abandoned Village====

It may have been the Terror who convinced the native population to resettle. Or it may have occurred during World War II, when the Island was used by the US Navy as a refuelling and resupply centre. But their village remains, looking more worn down and dilapidated every year. It is a popular site for staff to take a day trip to, in the cliff walls near the village are a series of carvings and funerary niches that don't match traditions from other Polynesian cultures, instead being similar to Mesoamerican cultures, Mayan in particular. The islanders were, by all accounts, a fairly typical Island culture, with lingual drift from other Polynesian languages that would be appropriate given their isolation.