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ID: 1008543
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1008543
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Pascua, Isla de (island)  Pascua, Isla de (island)

Coordinates:
Lat: 27 07 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -27.1167  decimal degrees
Long: 109 22 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -109.3667  decimal degrees

Note: First inhabited by Polynesians from Marquesas ca. 400 CE; noted for volcanic stone monoliths shaped in human form (moai); slave raids by Peruvians decreased population by one-third by 1863; native culture further declined when Christianity was introduced in the 1860s.

Names:
Pascua, Isla de (preferred,C,V)
Isla de Pascua (C,V,display)
Rapa Nui (C,V)
Rapanui (C,V)
Easter Island (C,O,English-P,U,B)
האי פסחא (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Chile (nation)  ........  Chile (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Valparaíso (region (administrative division))  ............  Valparaíso (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Pascua, Isla de (island)  ................  Pascua, Isla de (island) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Pascua, Isla de (island)  ........  Pascua, Isla de (island) (P)

Place Types:
island (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
islands (C)

Sources and Contributors:
האי פסחא..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Easter Island..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP]
..........................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:263
..........................  In Celebration of Indigenous Peoples, UN Press Release 5866 (2004)
..........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Isla de Pascua..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 4:333-334
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Pascua, Isla de..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 147
Rapa Nui..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 352
Rapanui..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 4:333-334
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:263
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 4:333-334
..................  In Celebration of Indigenous Peoples, UN Press Release 5866 (2004)
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -905269
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 147
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 352
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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