Solitary Land

Easter Island is the secondmost remote island from a continent in the world after the Tristan da Cunha archipelago It is located in the Pacific Ocean 3680 kilometres away from Chile of which it is part inhabited for centuries by a population of Polynesian origin for whom its name is RapaNui Exploited by European colonisers from the 18th century onwards visited by archaeologists anthropologists and tourists attracted by the moai the large tuff statues that people its coastlines and filmed thousands of times it has a stable population and an administration that manages the existence of the community including justice The presence on this isolated territory from which escape is difficult of a prison even if it is a building without walls is therefore a bizarre paradox