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The Saudi Gazette Published in The Saudi Gazette on 09 - 09 - 2009


The name “Easter Island” was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722. It is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands, 3,510 km west of continental Chile at its nearest point (between Lota and Lebu) and 2,075 km (1,289 mi) east of Pitcairn. __

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