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C. The island is called Rapa Nui by the descendants of the Polynesian-speaking people who came by canoe and/or catamaran sometime before 1200. It is the southeastern most point of the Polynesian Triangle which extends east to the islands of New Zealand and north to Hawaii. The islanders carved about a thousand of the Maoi statues between about 1100 and 1600.
D. More than 90 percent of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Easter Island is volcanic high island, consisting mainly of three extinct volcanoes. Paoa said the wind and rain are badly eroding the exposed volcanic stone of the Moai on the island.
A. Roggeveen was exploring for the Dutch West India Company when he landed on the island. His Easter Sunday visit resulted in the deaths of about a dozen islanders and the wounding of many others.
B. Chile is bordered Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. After a series actions by European landowners and missionaries, Rapa Nui’s native population fell to 111 by 1871. The population began to recover by the time the island was sold and annexed to Chile in 1888.