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[[Image:Easter_island_map.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Easter Island]]
[[Image:Easter_island_map.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Easter Island]]
[[Image:Easter_island_statues.jpg|thumb|right|Easter Island Statues]]
[[Image:Easter_island_statues.jpg|thumb|right|Easter Island Statues]]
[[File:President Pinochet on Easter Island, Chile.jpg|thumbnail|President Pinochet on Easter Island, Chile.]]
'''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.