Motu Nui

The bigger island in the back is Motu Nui. Competitors start at top of the Rano Kau crater in the ceremonial Orongo village, would climb down the cliffs, swim through shark infested water over to the island and try to collect the first egg of the season. If you won you were the birdman for a year and won (and here come the weird part) a year in seclusion..

Easter Island / Rapa Nui / Navel of the world / Isla de Pascua

January 30th 2006
Whatever you want to call it, it is the small volcanic island in the middle of nowhere between Australia and South America. It is 3600 km west of Chile (of which it is part of) and 2075 km east of Pitcairn Island and this makes it the most isolated inhabited island in the world (you have to be famous for something). It is located at “27°09'S 109°27'W” (put that into Google earth and you shal ... read more

South America » Chile » Easter Island

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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