The hidden secrets of Eastern Island
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The Eastern Island is one of the world’s most remoted and isolated places. It is a Pacific Island, also named Rapa Nui by its polynezian aborigines. It is 3600 km away from Santiago de Chile and stays under chilean jurisdiction under the name Isla de Pascua.
Today the population island counts 1500 people. In the past, in the XVIth century, before the europeans discovered the island, the local population was of 15000 people. The first question about the Easter Island is who were its aborigines and where did they from? A posibility is that they have come from the other Pacific islands during a more generations process. The other possible answer was that the locals came from the continental South America. This posibility was suported and proofed as posible by the notorious Thor Heyerdahl through a temerary expedition from Ecuador to Easter Island. The expedition was held exclusively with very rudimentary means, accesible to the people of precolonial times.
