Last Frontiers' articles for Chile (History)
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A Brief History of Easter Island
I was fascinated by the history of Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) on my recent visit and thought it might be useful to compile a few facts. The island is so very different to mainland Chile, with a distinctly Polynesian culture that developed in virtual isolation over many centuries. The remote island... Read more»
Easter bunny colony found
News just in from Chile's far-flung outpost. Easter Island has discovered a colony of rabbits burrowing beneath one of the islands infamous moai. For an island so named due to its discovery on Sunday, April 5, 1722 by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, the coincidence of the new-found bunnies just days... Read more»
Is Google dumbing down our world? - a filter bubble too far
In early 2014 I was in Chile, driving its stunning Carretera Austral, the 1,240km highway first conceived under Augusto Pinochet’s presidency and now uniting remote settlements with its thin ribbon of gravel and occasional asphalt. Whilst on a particularly adventurous full day excursion to the San R... Read more»