Rapa Nui
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s a child, I remember gazing wide-
eyed at images of Easter Island.
Where was this magical location?
And what are the magnificent moai? Did
I see one blink, its mouth move?
After many years of dreaming and
anticipation, I find myself on the most
isolated of islands after a five-and-a-
half-hour flight from Santiago. Steeped
in culture and history and with a diverse
landscape, this is Rapa Nui, aka Easter
Island. Despite the modern advantages
of air travel, at some 3,700 kilometres
from Chile, it is still one of the most
remote inhabited islands in the world.
Easter Island was given its name
by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen,
who “discovered” it on Easter Sunday- Anthropological evidence and
It’s one of the most remote places on Earth but, as Andrea
Morgan discovers, Easter Island and its monolithic moai
have a mystical attraction.Reve ale d
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