Leaving Easter Island

Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand make up what is called the Polynesian Triangle. The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and New Zealand (Aotearoa). This is often used as a simple way to define Polynesia. My son Mark noted that this week while I was on Easter Island, my daughter was in Hawaii since she lives there and my grandson Reeve was in New Zealand because he is living there. So we had the three corners of the Polynesian Triangle covered this week. I think this was a quite unusual and interesting coincidence .

Since chickens and roosters roam freely in Hawaii it was no surprise that the waiting area of the airport on Easter Island has free range poultry. 

Notice the large plane on the runway in the background.

It was a very comfortable 4 hr. 30 min. flight from Easter Island back Santiago. The runway on Easter Island is very long and can accommodate large planes because NASA built it. This is because they wanted a location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for a space shuttle to land in case of an emergency.