Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
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20 Facts About Easter Island
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Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world.
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Name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday in 1722, while searching for "Davis Land".
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Petroglyphs representing Bird Men on Easter Island are the same as some in Hawaii, indicating that this concept was probably brought by the original settlers; only the competition itself was unique to Easter Island.
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Easter Island's visit resulted in the death of about a dozen islanders, including the tumu ivi 'atua, and the wounding of many others.
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Easter Island made a detailed map of the bay, including his anchorage points, as well as a more generalised map of the island, plus some illustrations.
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Easter Island's population was reduced to the point where some of the dead were not even buried.
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Easter Island eventually bought up all lands on the island with the exception of the mission, and was its sole employer.
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Easter Island worked to develop tourism on the island and was the principal informant for the British and German archaeological expeditions for the island.
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Easter Island sent several pieces of genuine Rongorongo to his niece's husband, the German consul in Valparaiso, Chile.
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Easter Island effectively ruled the island from 1878 until his cession to Chile in 1888.
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Easter Island was annexed by Chile on 9 September 1888 by Policarpo Toro by means of the "Treaty of Annexation of the Island" .
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Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands.
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Easter Island is a volcanic high island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka 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.
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Under the Koppen climate classification, the climate of Easter Island is classified as a humid subtropical climate that borders on a tropical rainforest climate .
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Easter Island has suffered from heavy soil erosion in recent centuries, perhaps aggravated by agriculture and massive deforestation.
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Human bones have not been found in earth ovens other than those behind the religious platforms, indicating that cannibalism in Easter Island was a ritualistic practice.
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The first scientific exploration of Easter Island recorded that the indigenous population strongly rejected allegations that they or their ancestors had been cannibals.
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Easter Island has one of the richest collections of petroglyphs in all Polynesia.
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Easter Island is served by Mataveri International Airport, with jet service from LATAM Chile and, seasonally, subsidiaries such as LATAM Peru.
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