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  2. Easter Island - Wikipedia

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    Easter Island, Isla Salas y Gómez, South America and the islands in between Detailed map of Rapa Nui/Easter Island. Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. [76] Its closest inhabited neighbour is Pitcairn Island, 1,931 km (1,200 mi) to the west, with approximately 50 inhabitants. [77]

  3. Geography of Easter Island - Wikipedia

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    Easter Island, Isla Salas y Gómez, South America and the islands in between Detailed map of Rapa Nui/Easter Island. Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. [1] Its closest inhabited neighbours are the Chilean Juan Fernandez Islands, 1,850 km (1,150 mi) to the east, with approximately 850 inhabitants.

  4. Rapa Nui National Park - Wikipedia

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    Rapa Nui National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Rapa Nui) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile. Rapa Nui is the Polynesian name of Easter Island; its Spanish name is Isla de Pascua. The island is located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern extremity of the Polynesian Triangle. The ...

  5. List of islands of South America - Wikipedia

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    A composite satellite photograph of South America in orthographic projection. ... (Easter Island) ... Isla Hornos – location of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos)

  6. Insular Chile - Wikipedia

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    Salas y Gómez Island, located 3,220 kilometres (2,000 miles) west of Chañaral and 415 kilometres (258 miles) northeast of Easter Island. Of these islands, only Easter Island and Robinson Crusoe are inhabited. Of the two, Easter Island is the farthest from the South American continent. The Juan Fernández archipelago has become culturally ...

  7. Popular theory claiming Easter Island’s population collapsed ...

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    It is 2,200 miles from the nearest large land mass, South America, and 1,150 miles from the nearest other land. Linguistic, genetic and other evidence suggests that the Polynesians who colonised ...

  8. New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory ... - AOL

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    The genomes also revealed that the Easter Islanders had exchanged genes with a Native American population, suggesting that the inhabitants crossed the ocean to South America somewhere between 1250 ...

  9. Polynesian Triangle - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.