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[[Image:Easter_island_map.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Easter Island]]
[[Image:Easter_island_statues.jpg|thumb|right|Easter Island Statues]]
'''Easter Island''' is a remote, though uncharacteristically large, island in the South Pacific 2,237 miles west of [[Chile]] in South America, to which it now belongs politically. The natives of Easter Island, a [[Polynesia]]n people, refer to their island as Rapa Nui. Europeans refer to it as Easter Island because the Dutch accidentally encountered it on Easter Sunday, 1722, the day of first European contact.
'''Easter Island''' is a remote, though uncharacteristically large, island in the South Pacific 2,237 miles west of [[Chile]] in South America, to which it now belongs politically. The natives of Easter Island, a [[Polynesia]]n people, refer to their island as Rapa Nui. Europeans refer to it as Easter Island because the Dutch accidentally encountered it on Easter Sunday, 1722, the day of first European contact.