kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2008 | ocean, travel, preservation, archaeology
A really interesting and fair article about tourism on Easter Island.
Quoted: It's earth's most remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World."
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Today, in addition to a few cruise ships, there are eight flights a week from Santiago, Chile's capital, and Papeete, Tahiti. During low season, late March through July, the number of weekly flights drops to four, but packed planes have brought record numbers of tourists.
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