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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.
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. Chile saved the islanders from extintion.
== History ==
== History ==