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Measuring the Solitude: The Exact Location of Rapa Nui

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Geographic facts about the most mysterious land Easter Island is a small territory of mere 160 km2. For you have a good idea you can imagine an area equivalent to the size of a square of side length 12 km (although the island really has a triangular form). It is located in the South Pacific Ocean 3600 km away from the coast of Chile and belongs to this country as part of its territory. In a very simplified map below, only for rapid geographical reference purposes, you can viewpoint it through the vast extension of the Pacific Ocean. The Most Distant, Isolated, and Solitary Island in the World When you consider its size, its population—just 150 square kilometers and around 5,500 inhabitants in 2012—and its distance from the nearest inhabited land, it becomes clear that this is the most isolated place on Earth. The Most Isolated Place in the World: The Data to Prove It When I drew the simplified line map to show the island from a satellite perspective, I based it directly ...
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Easter Island, or Rapa Nui - Part Two

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RapaNui Language  Who speaks the RapaNui language in Easter Island When I visited RapaNui island in the summer of 2009 I found out that the total inhabitants of this island speak Spanish with the Chilean accent and it is difficult to hear native people speaking Rapa Nui language, the tongue of their ancestors, in a spontaneous or candid manner. The only one occasion I heard speaking in this way was when, in my hotel entrance lobby, two native youths were waiting to carry the luggage for some tourists to the island airport; they were gibbering in their own autochthonous language in a proficient way. In this trip to there for a week, via Chile, I had a curiosity and a great interest to know the extension, degree or rate in the use of it as native language and some questions such as how people speaks it, if fluently, for instance. Incidentally, I had a doubt about how its population was formed related to its ethnicity and whether there would be a rampant cohersive force over the...
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