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Place in Valparaíso, Chile
Easter Island
Isla de Pascua(Spanish) Rapa Nui(Rapa Nui)
Special Territory, Province and Commune
Outer slope of the Rano Raraku volcano, the quarry of the Moais with many uncompleted statues.
Flag
Logo
Emblem
Easter Island map showing Terevaka, Poike, Rano Kau, Motu Nui, Orongo, and Mataveri; major ahus are marked with moai
Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua[ˈislaðeˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.
Experts disagree on when the island's Polynesian inhabitants first reached the island. While many in the research community cited evidence that they arrived around the year 800, a 2007 study found compelling evidence that they arrived closer to 1200.[3][4] The inhabitants created a thriving and industrious culture, as evidenced by the island's numerous enormous stone moai and other artifacts. But land clearing for cultivation and the introduction of the Polynesian rat led to gradual deforestation.[3] By the time of European arrival in 1722, the island's population was estimated to be 2,000 to 3,000. European diseases, Peruvian slave raiding expeditions in the 1860s, and emigration to other islands such as Tahiti further depleted the population, reducing it to a low of 111 native inhabitants in 1877.[5]
Chile annexed Easter Island in 1888. In 1966, the Rapa Nui were granted Chilean citizenship. In 2007 the island gained the constitutional status of "special territory" (Spanish: territorio especial). Administratively, it belongs to the Valparaíso Region, constituting a single commune (Isla de Pascua) of the Province of Isla de Pascua.[6] The 2017 Chilean census registered 7,750 people on the island, of whom 3,512 (45%) considered themselves Rapa Nui.[7]
Easter Island is one of the world's remotest inhabited islands.[8] The nearest inhabited land (around 50 residents in 2013) is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 kilometres (1,289 mi) away;[9] the nearest town with a population over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, 2,606 km (1,619 mi) away; the nearest continental point lies in central Chile, 3,512 km (2,182 mi) away.
^"Censo 2017". National Statistics Institute (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
^ ab"Censo de Población y Vivienda 2002". National Statistics Institute. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
^ abCite error: The named reference terry_hunt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Dangerfield, Whitney (31 March 2007). "The Mystery of Easter Island". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
^Peiser, B. (2005). "From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui" (PDF). Energy & Environment. 16 (3&4): 513–539. Bibcode:2005EnEnv..16..513P. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.611.1103. doi:10.1260/0958305054672385. S2CID 155079232. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2010.
^List of Chilean Provinces, Congreso Nacional, archived from the original on 10 September 2012, retrieved 20 February 2013
^"Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas – REDATAM Procesamiento y diseminación". Redatam-ine.ine.cl. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^"Welcome to Rapa Nui – Isla de Pascua – Easter Island", Portal RapaNui, the island's official website, archived from the original on 14 January 2012
^Thomas Brinkhoff (1 February 2013). "Pitcairn Islands". Citypopulation.de. Thomas Brinkhoff. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
EasterIsland (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific...
monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (EasterIsland) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are...
Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, EasterIsland (also called Rapa Nui), located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most...
into islands, of which some have become amalgamated with... Africa, some... with what is now Asia; and that in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands we have...
region uses the time offset UTC−03:00 the whole year. Additionally, EasterIsland uses the time offset UTC−06:00 in winter time and UTC−05:00 in summer...
EasterIsland is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. Its closest inhabited neighbours are the Chilean Juan Fernandez Islands, 1,850 km...
The flag of EasterIsland (Rapa Nui: Te Reva Reimiro or Te Reva Rapa Nui) is the flag of EasterIsland, a special territory of Chile. It was first flown...
Outlying Islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island). Crocombe noted that EasterIsland, Lord Howe...
the Desventuradas Islands, EasterIsland, the Galápagos Islands, Guadalupe Island, the Juan Fernández Islands, the Revillagigedo Islands and Salas y Gómez...
arrived. The oceanic islands to the east of EasterIsland, such as Clipperton Island, the Galápagos Islands, and the Juan Fernández Islands, were in the past...
disperta, the Rapa Nui palm or EasterIsland palm, formerly Jubaea disperta, was the native coccoid palm species of EasterIsland. It disappeared from the pollen...
(FSC) Cook Islands. Retrieved 4 February 2018. Roeling, Sebastiaan. "The Resilience of EasterIsland - A Historical Ethnography". EasterIsland Culture....
Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection...
Pascua Airport (IATA: IPC, ICAO: SCIP) is at Hanga Roa on Rapa Nui / (EasterIsland) (Isla de Pascua in Spanish). The most remote airport in the world (defined...
fostered by the natives of the EasterIslands. Because almost no inscription survived from the height of the EasterIsland culture and attempts to translate...
plant became a common food across the region, especially in Hawaii, EasterIsland and New Zealand, where it became a staple food. By the 17th century...
The EasterIsland Foundation is an American non-profit organization that promotes the conservation and protection of the fragile cultural heritage of...
main town, harbour and seat of EasterIsland, a municipality of Chile. It is located in the southern part of the island's west coast, in the lowlands between...
are Mangareva (of French Polynesia), 688 km to the west, as well as EasterIsland, 1,929 km to the east. The Pitcairn Islanders are a biracial ethnic...
the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on EasterIsland, also known as Rapa Nui. The island is home to a population of just under 6,000 and is...
This is a list of the bird species of EasterIsland. The avifauna of EasterIsland (Rapa Nui) include 51 species, of which 6 have been introduced by humans...
also controls several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and EasterIsland, and claims about 1,250,000 square...
administer them, although none of these islands have extensive populations. EasterIsland are the only oceanic island politically associated with Latin America...
nation-states (Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands, Tonga, and Tuvalu) or form minorities in countries such as Australia, Chile (EasterIsland), New Zealand, France (French...
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