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Tourists dive on Easter Island's reef encounter a moai that was made for a 1994 Hollywood movie and then sunk offshore. The reef is healthy, although it is overfished.
Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world, 2300 miles from Chile and the nearest Polynesian center the opposite direction is Tahiti, 2600 miles to the west.
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- RANDY OLSON
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- Easter Island_National Geographic magazine 7/2012
