Easter Island / Rapa Nui, Chile - Rano-Raraku volcano, moais heads -ppc, stamps

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Easter Island / Rapa Nui, Chile - Rano-Raraku volcano, moais heads -ppc, stamps:
$3.36

Picture / Image: Rano-Raraku Volcano - in the sides of the volcano\'s crater about 700 maois were carved [Easter Island or Rapa Nui]
Publisher: Kiea
Postally used: yes
Stamp: Chile 100$ Vincente Huidabro + 2 x 80$ stamps overprints
Postmark(s): 1994 cds Eastyer Island [Isla de Pascua]
Sent to: Wolston, Coventry, England
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Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Chilean island in the southEastern Pacific Ocean, at the southEasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.

Polynesian people most likely settled on Easter Island sometime between 700 to 1100 CE, and created a thriving and industrious culture as evidenced by the island\'s numerous enormous stone moai and other artifacts. However, human activity, the introduction of the Polynesian rat and overpopulation led to gradual deforestation and extinction of natural resources which severely weakened the Rapa Nui civilization.[5] 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 further reduced the Rapa Nui population, to a low of only 111 inhabitants in 1877.[6]

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world.[7] The nearest inhabited land (around 50 residents in 2013) is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 kilometres (1,289mi) away;[8] the nearest town with a population over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, 2,606km (1,619mi) away; the nearest continental point lies just in central Chile, 3,512 kilometres (2,182mi) away.

Easter Island is a special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888. Administratively, it belongs to the Valparaíso Region, and, more specifically, it is the only commune of the Province Isla de Pascua.[9] According to the 2012 Chilean census, the island has about 5,800 residents, of whom some 60 percent are descendants of the aboriginal Rapa Nui.