Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Remote Polynesian island of the moai statues; Rapa Nui National Park is a UNESCO site.
- Formation
- volcanic triple-corner (Poike, Rano Kau, Terevaka); crater lakes
- Population
- 7,700
- Water
- Pacific Ocean
- Access
- difficult
Every required movement
The passage
to Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
Fly Santiago–Hanga Roa (IPC, LATAM, ~5.5 hrs); limited Tahiti service; small boats only — no ferry from mainland.
- 01Mataveri International (IPC)
Nearest recorded air access
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Chile entry + Rapa Nui entry form + park ticket; accommodation booking often checked.
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Settled c. 1200 by Polynesians; ~1,000 moai carved; deforestation and 19th-c. slave raids/colonization devastated the population; annexed by Chile 1888.
Polynesian colonization c. 1200; moai era to ~1600s; Dutch contact 1722 (Easter Sunday); Peruvian slave raids 1860s; Chilean annexation 1888; national park 1935.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 27.11° S · 109.35° W
- Sovereignty
- Chile · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Chile (~3,500 km east); Pitcairn (~2,075 km west)
- Best recorded window
- October–April; Tapati Festival (Feb).
- Permits / entry
- Chile entry + Rapa Nui entry form + park ticket; accommodation booking often checked.
- Languages
- Spanish, Rapa Nui
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