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	Zegrahm Expeditions - Remote Rapa Iti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also called Rapa Iti to distinguish it from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Rapa is the remnant of a collapsed volcano, its submerged crater forming the island's harbor.
		Palisade walls, masonry, and terraces surrounded each fort, and the current theory is that Rapa's inhabitants lived on the ridges and descended to the lowlands daily to tend their crops.
		Rapa's small size, lack of development, and isolation combine to ensure the villagers lead a peaceful existence far from the frenzied pace of the modern world.
	www.zeco.com /library/rapa_l.asp (540 words)

	EVS-Islands: Rapa Island FP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rapa (27˚36'S., 144˚20'W.) is an irregular, circular form about 4.5 miles in diameter.
		Rapa was first sighted by English Captain George Vancouver in 1791.
		Rapa’s 500 inhabitants are strong survivors, descendants of fierce Polynesian warriors and kings, hardy sailors and pearlshell divers.
	evs-islands.blogspot.com /2006/07/rapa-island-fp.html (1376 words)

	The Island of Rapa Nui
		Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is a small volcanic island that encompasses about 67 square miles of land mass, and at its highest point rises to about 1,700 feet.
		At one point in the early 1900s there were only 111 Rapa Nui people left on the island; and while the slowly growing population has managed to hang on to much of their Polynesian culture, a great deal was also lost forever.
		Rapa Nui is also known by its Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, which is the transliteration of the English name.
	www.polynesia.com /islands/rapanui2.html (1602 words)

	Tahitian Choir
		Rapa Iti: The Tahitian Choir is both a cultural treasure and a World Beat hit of major proportions.
		"Rapa Iti: The Tahitian Choir" brings the soaring, majestic choral sound of the remote South Pacific island of Rapa Iti to an international audience.
		The entire population of Rapa Iti is 328 people and the songs in this recording speak the tradition, beliefs and history of the island and come directly from the spirit of the people of Rapa.
	www.greatbigisland.com /detail_tahitian_choir.htm (445 words)

	Easter Island
		Rapa Nui is the most isolated place of inhabited land in the world, located in the South Pacific.
		According to his plot, the destruction of Rapa Nui's statue cult and its complex society was not the fault of European perpetrators.
		Much of Rapa Nui's traditions of internal violence and warfare that were collected, infered and construed many decades and generations later by European researchers are most plausibly collective reflections and individual recollections of these extremely traumatic clashes - and not accounts of some mythical events many hundreds of years earlier.
	sacredsites.com /americas/chile/easter_island.html (13993 words)

	Rapa travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rapa is a remote atoll in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia with a population of about 500.
		It is also known as Rapa Iti or Oparo.
		It is not to be confused with Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
	wikitravel.org /en/Rapa (147 words)

	Easter Island: land of mystery (1)
		Rapa Iti, Little Rapa, is an island southeast of Tahiti.
		On Rapa Iti a tradition survived claiming that the island had been settled by pregnant women escaping from massacres on Easter Island, known to them as Rapa Nui.
		There are no stone statues on Rapa Iti, but many around Lake Titicaca, and the one on Rapa Island depicts a man with long ears.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/easter1.htm (5930 words)

	Rapa travel guide and map by The Tahiti Traveler
		Little Rapa, "Rapa Iti" in Tahitian, is the most far-flung of the Austral Islands, some 1,420 km to the south of Tahiti.
		Rapa's temperate climate is not warm enough for corals to grow, nor for coconut trees which are not to be seen on its shores and where the Australs' winter temperature in July and August can go down as low as 5°C.Yet how many fruits vegetables, either familiar or unknown elsewhere, grow on her fertile soils!
		Goats and wild cattle live in the mountains.They augment the daily menu of the islanders alternating with salmon, crayfish, seas slugs, oyster and sea urchins that are in great abundance near the shore.
	www.thetahititraveler.com /islandguide/rapaintro.asp (368 words)

	Rapa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rapa is another name for the plant rapeseed (Brassica napus).
		Rapa Iti is an island in French Polynesia, the southernmost of the Austral Islands.
		Rapa Nui, the native name of Easter Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rapa (101 words)

	tahiti tours, tahiti cruise, and french polynesia cruise vacation
		They include the high islands of Rurutu, Tubuai, Rimatara, Raivavae, and Rapa, plus the low, uninhabited islands of Maria (or Hull) and the Marotiri (or Bass) Rocks.
		Fletcher Christian and his mutineers on the H.M.S. Bounty made two attempts to settle on Tubuai in 1789, and this event is re-enacted every two years on the site of Fort George near the sheltered harbor.
		Spanish Captain Thomas Gayangos discovered lovely Raivavae in 1775 and remote Rapa was first sighted by English Captain George Vancouver in 1791.
	www.aranui.com /Spanish/AustralIslands.htm (1028 words)

	Motley, Timothy J., Roland J. Fenstemacher, Jean-Yves Meyer, Steven P. Perlman, and Kenneth R. Wood. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)*
		It is located at 27° 36´ south latitude and 144° 17´ west longitude and is 650 km south southeast of Tahiti and 200 km southeast of Raivavae, the nearest island in the Austral archipelago.
		Scientists have found the vegetation of Rapa Iti to be one of the most difficult to classify.
		Unfortunately, the forests of Rapa are theatened by deforestation, fire, goats, and cattle.
	www.botany2002.org /section12/abstracts/152.shtml (342 words)

	On Point : The Tahitian Choir: Rapa Iti - 4/2/2004
		On Point : The Tahitian Choir: Rapa Iti - 4/2/2004
		Journeying to the South Pacific island of Rapa Iti, the ancient home of the Tahitian Choir.
		Pascal Nabet-Meyer, ethnomusicologist and music producer, "The Tahitian Choir: Rapa Iti."
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2004/04/20040402_b_main.asp (57 words)

	Amazon.com: Rapa Iti: Music: The Tahitian Choir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wholly unique, Rapa Iti is a fascinating listen that is as exotic as the locale it was recorded in.
		I had been listening to "Rapa Iti Volume 2" for years, and I bought this disc after listening to several interviews with the man who made the recordings, Pascal Nabet-Meyer.
		I love the music of the Rapa people and their story is fascinating.
	www.amazon.com /Rapa-Iti-Tahitian-Choir/dp/B0001XAKGK (715 words)

	easter island :: muellerworld
		The local name, Rapa Nui (Rapa means "island", Nui means "big" or "great"), is a more modern (1860's) than what is thought to be the original name Te-Pito-Te-Henua, or The Navel of the World.
		He told me that there was a screening of the movie Rapa Nui at his bar that evening (Co-produced by Kevin Costner).
		He said it was a pretty good movie, but the writers had taken some liberties with some of the facts (like the fact that the Birdman Competition era did not overlap with the Moai carving era).
	www.muellerworld.com /easter_island (2291 words)

	Learn a Little Rapa Nui
		(1) Taxonomy: The Rapa Nui language is the closest modern Austronesian language to proto-Eastern Polynesian, which probably emerged in the Marquesas Islands and which forms the linguistic base for Marquesan, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Mangarevan, Paumotu, Maori, Rarotongan, and Rapa Nui among others.
		(2) Phonology: The sounds of Rapa Nui are identical to Hawaiian except that in Hawaiian an "l" replaces the proto-Eastern Polynesian "r" which Rapa Nui retains.
		Hawaiian and Rapa Nui are clearly cognate languages.
	www.k12.hi.us /~rapa/06learn.html (274 words)

	Easter Island
		These ancient names and a host of mythological details ignored by mainstream archaeologists point to the possibility that the remote island may once have been both a geodetic marker and the site of an astronomical observatory of a long forgotten civilization.
		All have tried to approach the question as the early Rapa Nui people did, with the use of only stone, wood, rope, and human power.
		Like most oral traditions, Rapa Nui folklore has been passed down through the generations, and it is unknown whether the stories are based on historical fact.
	www.world-mysteries.com /easter_island.htm (2620 words)

	HUI `AINA O HANA - Pacific Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hui `Aina O Hana is exploring ways in which we can help facilitate programs to send representatives from the Hana community to some of the remote islands of the South Pacific as a further means of reopening the bridges of communication between Pacific Island peoples.
		One such program, under the development of Hui `Aina O Hana Advisory Board member Kekula Bray-Crawford will involve sending a small group to Rapa Iti in the Astrals Islands, south of Tahiti.
		To help make these cultural exchanges a reality, Hui `Aina O Hana is establishing a special fund exclusively for the purpose of providing transportation and living expenses for those making the journey.
	www.hookele.com /huiaina/pacific.html (324 words)

	Amazon.com: "Rapa Nui": Key Phrase page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He became the tormented target of an enraged Rapa Nui war chief named Torometi, and Eyraud's superiors, fearing for his life, removed him.
		The cultural landscape of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) Myra Shackley In the middle of the Great Ocean, in a region where no one ever passes,...
		Rapa Nui culture of Easter Island -- Tour Easter Island: the Rapa Nui culture and Tapati Festival.
	amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /phrase/Rapa-Nui (580 words)

	Bookreporter.com - EASTER ISLAND by Jennifer Vanderbes
		Easter Island, an isosceles triangle of volcanic rock in the Pacific Ocean, is two thousand miles from both Tahiti and Chile and one of the most isolated places on earth.
		Known today as "Rapa Nui," or "Great Rapa" (to distinguish it from "Little Rapa," or "Rapa Iti"), the island's earliest native settlers called it "Te Piti O Te Henua," or "the navel of the world." In 1722, Admiral Roggeveen stumbled across the island on Easter Sunday, and bestowed its most familiar moniker upon it.
		The contrast of great to small, the symbolism of the navel, and the connotations of the Christian Easter --- none of this is lost on Vanderbes, who has crafted a story involving sibling and spousal rivalry, connectedness and separation, frustration and hope.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0385336748.asp (626 words)

	Tahitian Choir, The - Rapa Iti DVD Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/tahitian_choir_the_rapa_iti/dvd.php (216 words)

	South Seas a cappella vocal groups - Pacific island choral singing
		The people of Rapa Iti have kept their traditional music untouched since the beginning of their history.
		The island of Rapa Iti is home to 328 people of Polynesian descent.
		Though their church music has been influenced by Christian hymns, there is an ancient polyphonic music sung in quarter-tones kept very much alive by the whole population.
	www.singers.com /world/southseas.html (586 words)

	Follow the sun, young man
		They were inspired to name one of the islands they landed "Rapa Nui" after their paddles, which were vital for getting them there, and were useful as weapons when needed.
		April 12, 2004: Dear Pen, "Rapa Nui" means "big paddle", literally, although some say that it was named after the island of Rapa Iti because it remined people of that island.
		The Samoan word "sa" (sacred), which I think is associated with the veneration of the sun, is also a prefix that denotes "family".
	solo.manuatele.net /toaga.htm (10093 words)

	Vineyard Gazette - Features
		And all along the singer adds her plangent theme: "We'll rise above this scarlet tide that separates the widow from the bride."
		The dancers in the next number aren't bare-chested, but Gauguin would have loved "Rapa Iti." choreographed by Sandy Broyard.
		From the program we learn that Rapa, the southernmost island in the Pacific Ocean, has 300 inhabitants, 130 of whom are warbling the Tahitian-style melody on the soundtrack.
	www.mvgazette.com /features/?story=20050415_dancers (798 words)

	Easter Island Foundation Publications
		Chapter titles are: New Horizons in Pacific Research; Archaeology on Rapa Nui; Hawaiian Archaeology; Western Pacific Research; Samoan Prehistory; French Polynesian Prehistory; Arts of the Pacific I; Arts of the Pacific II; Anthropology on Rapa Nui; Polynesian Languages and Literature; Polynesian Physical Anthropology; and Conservation Problems in the Pacific.
		This is a book that everyone who has any interest in Pacific studies will want to have in their library.
		Travel with us from Tahiti to Ra'ivavae, to Rapa Iti and Morotiri, to Mangareva and Pitcairn Island, to Easter Island, and finally to the Juan Fernandez Islands.
	www.islandheritage.org /eifpubs.html (2767 words)

	Tangiia and Tutapu
		There he met Iro (Hiro) and asked for Iro’s son, who would be made chief (ariki) of Tangiia’s people since Tangiia’s two sons had been killed by Tutapu.
		Hiro agreed and revealed that his son was on Rapa (Easter Island).
		Tangiia sailed to Rapa-nui (Easter Island), which name was given to distinguish it from Rapa-iti, an island southeast of Rarotonga.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~dennisk/voyagingchiefs/tangiia.html (4970 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:ray
		Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > French Polynesia > Rapa
		Austral Islands, Rapa (Rapa Iti) Island, 2 villages, Ha'urei and 'Area.
		This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ray (84 words)

	Amazon.com: Rapa Iti: Music: The Tahitian Choir (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amazon.com: Rapa Iti: Music: The Tahitian Choir (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
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	Native Forest Council: News
		Readers interested in learning more about the possible non-existence of the Ice Age and its glacier coverage will enjoy the book Cataclysm: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 BC, by Allan & Delair.)
		The real truth regarding the tremendous social devastation which occurred on Easter Island is that it was a direct consequence of the inhumane behavior of many of the first European visitors, particularly the slavers who raped and murdered the islanders, introduced small pox and other diseases, and brutally removed the natives to mainland South America.
		Readers interested in more detailed information regarding the inaccurate historical interpretations concerning the causes of Easter Island’s ecological devastation, its so-called civil war, and the genocide caused by European slavers will appreciate the following article written by Benny Peiser FROM GENOCIDE TO ECOCIDE: THE RAPE OF RAPA NUI
	www.forestcouncil.org /tims_picks/view.php?id=1170 (13978 words)

	$ound City 2000, Inc.: World Music Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TAHITIAN CHOIR - RAPA ITI, VOL 2 (SHANACHIE)
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