Island
Easter Island
Easter Island lies more than 3,000 kilometres west of South America. The extinct Terevaka volcano dominates it, with Poike and Rano Kau alongside.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Palm forest once shaded its hills, which now carry low vegetation. Scholars still argue about what caused that clearance and the fall in population.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Find Easter Island on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Easter Island label sits at 27.1° S, 109.4° W, in the Southern and Western Hemispheres.
Also labelled I. de Pascua.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- South Pacific Ocean — about 1,600 km west
- Desierto de Atacama — about 4,000 km east
- Amazon Basin — about 5,500 km east
- Amazonas — about 5,500 km east
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