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'''Easter Island''' is a remote, though uncharacteristically large, [[Chile]]an island in the South Pacific 2,237 miles west of [[South America]]. 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, [[Chile]]an island in the South Pacific 2,237 miles west of [[South America]]. 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.
Between 1965 and 1970, the United States Air Force, USAF, settled on Easter Island, radically changing the way of life of the Rapa Nui, as they became acquainted with the customs of the consumer societies of the developed world. During this period, the government of Eduardo Frei Montalva enacted the Pascua Law, which meant a basic leveling between the rights of the islanders and the Chilean mainlanders.<ref>{{cite book|title=Iorana & Goodbye|publisher=Pehuén|author=Patricia Stambuk}}</ref><ref>[https://www.24horas.cl/nacional/la-desconocida-historia-de-la-base-gringa-albergada-en-isla-de-pascua-2132317 La desconocida historia de la base "gringa" albergada en Isla de Pascua]</ref>
Between 1965 and 1970, the [[United States Air Force]] (USAF) settled on Easter Island, radically changing the way of life of the Rapa Nui, as they became acquainted with the customs of the consumer societies of the developed world. During this period, the government of Eduardo Frei Montalva enacted the Pascua Law, which meant a basic leveling between the rights of the islanders and the Chilean mainlanders.<ref>{{cite book|title=Iorana & Goodbye|publisher=Pehuén|author=Patricia Stambuk}}</ref><ref>[https://www.24horas.cl/nacional/la-desconocida-historia-de-la-base-gringa-albergada-en-isla-de-pascua-2132317 La desconocida historia de la base "gringa" albergada en Isla de Pascua]</ref>
Easter Island is triangular in shape and roughly 64 square miles in size.
Easter Island is triangular in shape and roughly 64 square miles in size.