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Article: Easter Island: a remarkable culture built in the middle of nowhere.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- November 20, 2003
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Byline: Randy Curwen
HANGA ROA, Easter Island _ After 4 { hours of nothing below but blue, we are going down _ and heading toward a thousand-foot cliff.
This isn't like flying into Hawaii or Tahiti or most any other island in the world where you at least get a hint of land before you hit it.
No ships beneath, no warning reefs, no outlying islands, no mountains popping through the clouds _ nothing, absolutely nothing, in a million square miles of ocean prepares you for this.
Easter Island, a 64-square-mile dot of land without an inhabited neighbor for 1,200 miles, is by most means of reckoning the most remote inhabited island in the ...