Figure GT.31

Easter Island. Easter Island is about 2,000 km (1,240 mi) from the nearest inhabited islands, the Pitcairn Islands, and 3,610 km (2,250 mi) from Chile. Easter Island is called Rapa Nui in the local Polynesian language.

(NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility)