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Easter Island is a volcanic island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape.
View toward the interior of Easter Island. The climate of Easter Island is tropical rainforest. The lowest temperatures are registered in July and August (18 °C (64 °F)) and the highest in February (maximum temperature 28 °C (82 °F) [2]), the summer season in the southern hemisphere. Winters are relatively mild.
Isla de Pascua Province (Easter Island Province) is a Chilean province, an administrative division located within the Valparaíso Region. It has a 163.6 km² area and a population of 5761 inhabitants. The provincial capital is Hanga Roa.
Easter Island, the tiny island located 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, is a popular tourist destination. Easter Island Is Limiting Tourism in an Attempt to Save Its Thousand-year-old Culture ...
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 ...
The Easter Island heads are located in the Rapa Nui National Park, according to the park’s website. The park has 887 Moai statues and 300 ceremonial platforms spread across the island, remnants ...
Subtropical Cyclone Katie, unofficially named by researchers, was an unusual weather event in early 2015.After the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season had officially ended, a rare subtropical cyclone was identified outside of the basin near Easter Island, during early May, and was unofficially dubbed Katie by researchers. [1]
A fire on Easter Island has damaged many of its sacred moai statues, with some of the charring said to be "irreparable". Easter Island fire causes "irreparable" damage to sacred moai statues ...