Which continent does Easter Island belong to?

Easter Island: Location: located in the southeast Pacific Ocean, 27 07' 41.51"s,109 22'12.08" W Island Type: Volcanic Island Country: Easter Island, the tallest stone statue on Easter Island in Chile. Easter Island is one of the most isolated islands in the world, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest inhabited island, Pitcairn Island. The island is roughly triangular and consists of three volcanoes. It and Juan Fernandez Islands are two possessions of Chile in the South Pacific. Easter Island is famous for hundreds of mysterious giant stone statues. At present, there are about 2000 people living on the island, all of whom belong to Polynesian race. Before westerners came to this island, it was still in the stone age of mankind. They only have language, not words. Because the island is full of stones and no crops, we can only grow some sweet potatoes that are easy to grow. Islanders used to live by fishing and planting a few sweet potatoes, but now most of them are engaged in tourism services. The indigenous Polynesians on the island call this island "the center of the world". The first discoverer of this island was the English navigator Edward Davis. When he first landed on the island at 1686, he found it was desolate, but there were many huge stone statues standing there. Davis was so surprised that he called the island "a miserable and strange land". From 65438 to 0805, western colonists began to capture Rapa Nui as slaves on the island. At first, it was only occasionally. 1862, Peruvian pirates arrived in eight ships and captured 1000 Rapa Nui. The male Rapa Nui was almost caught in the net. These people were transported to Peru and sold to local slave owners. Under the condemnation of international public opinion, the Peruvian government had to order slave traders to put these Rapanui back, but so far only about 100 Rapanui have died. On the way back to Easter Island, they were infected with smallpox and died one after another during the journey. Only 15 people returned to their hometown. This 15 person also brought smallpox to Easter Island. The last descendants of the legendary founding chief Hotu Matu'a died, as did all the chiefs and priests. Only a few hundred people are left on the island. The following year, French missionaries set foot on Easter Island, easily transforming Rapa Nui people into Christians in the disaster, and at the same time completely destroying the culture on the island. They ordered all the boards engraved with Lange to be burned. Twenty-five surviving Lanlange boards were secretly hidden by Rapa Nui people. The Rapa Nui people who survived in the 1970s moved to Tahiti. At 1877, the population of the island is only11. 1888 is also Easter. The Chilean government announced that it would annex Easter Island and lease most of the land on the island to a sheep company until 1953, which made the land on the island more barren. Today, the population of the island has risen to more than 2,000, but only 5% of school-age children can speak Rapanui. The first European to land on Easter Island was Jacob Roginin, captain of the Dutch merchant ship, who spent a day on the island on 1722. He and his crew found residents on the island. According to them, these residents have various shapes. They worship the rising sun and worship huge stone statues with fire. Some of them, who are said to be white, hang ornaments on their earlobes to make them fall to their shoulders, which is obviously a custom of non-Polynesians. An expedition sent by the Spanish governor in Peru rediscovered the island in 1770. They estimate that about 3000 people live on the island. There seems to have been a civil war on the island before the British navigator Colonel james cook arrived in 1774. The British found murdered and poor Polynesian residents, only 600 people. 6? 5700 people, less than 30 women. They also saw that the huge stone statues were no longer the object of worship, and most of them were knocked down. 1786, the French navigator Jean-Francois de Galap (Earl of Drape Lutz) arrived at the island and found about 2,000 people on the island. His attempt to introduce livestock failed. Since 1792, some sailboats, including whaling ships, have been to this island. To 1860, the population is about 3000. Slave traders from Peru plundered the island in 1862, and smallpox was prevalent since then. In 1877, the population decreased to11. /kloc-the population increased again at the end of 0/9. 1864, French Catholic priest Eugene Eyraud came to the island as the first foreigner to settle on the island. By 1868, the residents believe in Christianity. 1870, Tahiti immigrants began to raise sheep. 1888, the island was incorporated into the territory of Chile, and Chile leased almost all the land to raise sheep. 1954 Chilean naval authorities took over the sheep ranch. 1965 the Chilean government appointed a civilian governor and the islanders became full citizens of Chile. In just 30 years, the resurrected islanders have fully adapted to the cultural standards of the mainland, but they have not forgotten to respect their ancestors and their crafts and customs. Every February, men, women and children take part in competitive activities to relive the past arts and customs of the island, including carving, percussion, weaving reed boats and traditional songs and dances.