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  Easter Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Easter Island, known in the native language as Rapa Nui ("Big Rapa") or Isla de Pascua in Spanish, is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile.
The Rapanui name for Rapa Nui was Te pito o te henua (The Navel of the World) due to its isolation, but this too seems to have been derived from another location, possibly a Marquesan landmark.
From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui by Benny Peiser
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Easter_Island   (3571 words)

  
 Easter Island Statue Project: About Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
The Rapa Nui landscape is one of gently rolling hills and slopes irregularly punctuated by volcanic cones.
Rapa Nui is a Pacific high island, formed by the coalescing flows of three Pliocene to Holocene age volcanoes.
Rapa Nui mortuary practices included the exposure of the corpse on a raised bier in front of the image ahu.
www.ssc.ucla.edu /ioa/eisp/rapanui/rapanui.htm   (1729 words)

  
 Chile - Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island)
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon.
From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world.
Rapa Nui [Spanish: Isla de Pascua], is a triangular-shaped island belonging to Chile, located in the South Pacific Ocean, 3,700 km (2,300 mi) west of the Chilean coast.
worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-ChileRapaNui.htm   (466 words)

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