Valparaiso Region topographic maps
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Easter Island
Chile > Valparaiso Region > Easter Island
The current Polynesian name of the island, Rapa Nui ("Big Rapa"), was coined after the slave raids of the early 1860s, and refers to the island's topographic resemblance to the island of Rapa in the Bass Islands of the Austral Islands group. However, Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl argued that Rapa was…
Average elevation: 48 m
