Easter Island is a small, remote island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, belonging to Chile in South America.

Basic location

  • It sits in the South Pacific, at the eastern edge of the Polynesian Triangle.
  • Politically, it is a special territory of Chile, even though it lies far out in the ocean.

Distance and remoteness

  • Easter Island is about 3,500 km (around 2,180 miles) west of mainland Chile, making it one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands.
  • The nearest inhabited neighbors are other small Pacific islands, with even the closest still hundreds of kilometers away.

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