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Mount Terevaka

mountain, Easter Island
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Mount Terevaka is the highest point on Easter Island, reaching 1,969 feet (600 meters) above sea level. Easter Island, known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui, is a Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is famous for its giant stone statues. The island itself is a volcanic formation, triangular in shape, and characterized by lava fields and tuff craters. Mount Terevaka is one of the three extinct volcanoes that form the island's landscape.1

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  1. Easter Island
  2. Mount Ruapehu

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