Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peruvian pirates swept down on Easter and carried off many of its inhabitants to slavery. Smallpox killed hundreds of others. When the Chilean Navy moved in (in 1888), its sailormen found no more than 200 or 300 Polynesians, living among Easter's great stone images. For years, Easter Island's only visitors were chance whalers, occasional foreign warships, and archeologists trying to solve the mystery of the giant statues. One & all, the visitors liked the island's moderate climate and superb trade winds, but for vacations or all year preferred the lusher surroundings of Tahiti...
...Chilean Government decided that Easter Island would never be commercially valuable, and rented 53 of its 60 square miles (for $150 a month) to a subsidiary of the British trading firm of Williamson & Balfour...
...Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
Already Chile's Foreign Office was discussing with the Australians a South Pacific airline that would be sure to end Easter's pastoral isolation. The island's grassy downs, ten hours from Chile, would make a perfect way station...
...stations will be located somewhere in the frozen splash of islands north and west of Arctic Bay (see map). Only two of them have been pinpointed yet. The headquarters station will be at Winter Harbor on Melville Island and will be in operation by next August. The other will be still further north-700 miles from the North Pole-at Ellesmere Island's Eureka Sound. It will be set up probably in April. Exploratory parties will recommend sites for the other seven stations later...