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Name (Cartographic)
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Easter Island, Rapa Nui
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Indigenous place name
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Rapa Nui
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Indigenous Language Group
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Rapa Nui
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Languages Spoken
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Rapa Nui
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English
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Spanish
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Quote
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We turned one of the most remote places on Earth into a sheep and cattle station on the Australian model. The remaining Rapa Nui at the time of our arrival numbered a hundred souls […] restricted to the encampment of Hanga Roa, with the remainder of the island set aside for grazing. The main English manager of that time took two Rapa Nui wives while in charge of Rapa Nui, the second when she was in her mid-teens. Meanwhile, shepherds from Scotland brought in to care for mobs of Merinos imported from New South Wales tore down ancient ceremonial platforms and used the stones for dry walls like those at home. [...] Here was a distilled version of the same displacement, forced assimilation, economic immiseration and so on. It could have as easily been the Gulf Country as the Eastern Pacific.
Criticism.
Williamson, Geordie. On Alexis Wright: Writers on Writers. Black Inc Books, 2025, pp. 94-6
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identifier
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GEO-RPN