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Easter Island - We are finally here!

January 28th 2007
We arrived at Easter Island this morning at 7:00 a.m. This is a tender port which means our ship will be anchored out at sea and we will take a tender (small boat- our ship’s lifeboats) to shore. Easter Island, known in the native language as Rapa Nui is an island in the South Pacific belonging to Chile. It is also know as the “belly button” of the Pacific. This island was given the comm ... read more
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Chilean Flag Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more
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