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Easter Island, Isla Salas y Gómez, South America and the islands in between Detailed map of Rapa Nui/Easter Island Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. [ 76 ] Its closest inhabited neighbour is Pitcairn Island , 1,931 km (1,200 mi) to the west, with approximately 50 inhabitants. [ 77 ]
English: Detailed topographic map in English of Easter Island. Español : Mapa topográfico detallado en inglés de la Isla de Pascua , Chile . Esperanto : detala topografia mapo de la Paskinsulo (jen anglalingva, sed ankaŭ havebla en pluraj aliaj lingvoj)
Rapa Nui National Park is now under the administrative control of the Ma´u Henua Polynesian Indigenous Community, which is the first autonomous institute on the island. The indigenous Rapa Nui people have regained authority over their ancestral lands and are in charge of the management, preservation and protection of their patrimony.
Easter Island, Isla Salas y Gómez, South America and the islands in between Detailed map of Rapa Nui/Easter Island. Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. [1] Its closest inhabited neighbours are the Chilean Juan Fernandez Islands, 1,850 km (1,150 mi) to the east, with approximately 850 inhabitants.
Map of the location of ꞌOrongo on Easter Island. Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It consists of a collection of low, sod-covered, windowless, round-walled buildings with even lower doors positioned on the high south-westerly tip of the large volcanic caldera called Rano Kau.
For the locals, it is a way to draw the line between the Chilean government's policy-making in the island, and the Rapa Nui's ancestral rights on their land. [3] In 2011, the Schiess family, owner of the Hanga Roa Hotel, donated back the land of the hotel to the Rapa Nui, but retained a 30-year management lease of the hotel. [ 4 ]
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.
Isla de Pascua (Easter Island; Rapa Nui) is a Chilean commune with a special regime, [note 1] located within Isla de Pascua Province in Valparaíso Region.It is the only commune in Isla de Pascua Province, comprising Easter Island and Isla Salas y Gómez.