Where is easter island?
Where is Easter Island? Easter Island lies in the southern Pacific Ocean, approximately 2200 miles (3500 kilometers) off the coast of Chile and from the resort of Tahiti. Lying close to the Polynesian Islands of the Marquesas (where one season of Survivor was filmed) and the Society Islands, it is the worlds most remote inhabited island. Imagine being in a place so isolated! It is quite amazing to imagine how the first people came to inhabit this place. Why would one or two boatloads of people decide to stay on an uninhabited island? Maybe their cultural tendencies involved searching for new lands. Perhaps their homeland had deteriorated to such a point that the residents were forced to leave in search for food. The early settlers experience may have been reminiscent to Tom Hanks predicament in the movie Cast Away. The movie was filmed on a different island, but Easter Island may have looked similar. . .remote, lush, extremely quiet (except for the wildlife), and totally devoid of huma
Easter Island is one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands. It is located 3,600 km (2,237 mi) west of continental Chile, at 27 degrees south of the equator, longitude -109. That’s about 4.5 to 5 hours from Chile and 5 to 6 hours from Tahiti on Lan airlines the only commercial airline serving the island.
