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Easter Island: Spellbinding Rapa Nui's elegant, eerie protectors
Telegraph.co.uk That said, the name Rapa Nui actually means "Big Rapa", because the island is similar in shape to Rapa in the Bass Islands of French Polynesia. Thomas also called the island Te Pito o Te Henua, which means "navel of the world" and is unpronounceable … |
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