Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost factor of the Polynesian Triangular. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, produced by the very early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO called Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island shielded within Rapa Nui National Park.
Polynesian people more than likely picked Easter Island sometime between 700 to 1100 CE, as well as developed a successful as well as laborious culture as shown by the island's many massive stone moai and also other artefacts. Nonetheless, human task, the encounter of the Polynesian rat and overpopulation brought about gradual logging and termination of natural resources which badly deteriorated the Rapa Nui people. By the time of European arrival in 1722, the island's population had dropped to 2,000-- 3,000 from an estimated high of approximately 15,000 just a century earlier. European diseases and Peruvian slave raiding in the 1860s additional reduced the Rapa Nui population, to a low of only 111 inhabitants in 1877.
Easter Island is one of one of the most remote occupied islands on the planet. The closest occupied land (around 50 citizens in 2013) is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 kilometres (1,289 mi) away; the nearest community with a population over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, 2,606 km (1,619 mi) away; the closest continental point lies in central Chile, 3,512 kilometres (2,182 mi) away.
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