Rapa Nui's allure part of trip to Chile

Discoveries from Santa Fe to Chile
By Alfred Borcover - Special to the Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Published December 31, 2006

On my final leg, I flew 2,300 miles from Santiago to Easter Island, population 4,000. This 64-square-mile speck in the Pacific is considered the most remote populated spot in the world--2,500 miles from Tahiti and 1,500 miles from the closest inhabited island, Pitcairn. Easter Island's allure will always be its mysterious moai figures, 887 of them.

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