Leaving the inshore waters of the Calle-Calle River in Valdivia downstream, looking for the open Pacific Ocean . Following Chileans coastline northbound. Next anchorage in Cumberland Bay on Robinson Crusoe Island. Robinson Crusoe Island was born out of different volcanic explosions that gave life to Juan Fernandez Archipelago. The complete loneliness lived there by the marine Alexander Selkirk (1704 to 1708) inspired the writer Daniel Defoe to immortalize this experience in one of the classics of the world literature. The local economy is based on the lobster fishing. Leaving Robinson Crusoe Island . We will head further north to reach the Trade winds and start rolling down to Easter Island . Landfall on Easter Island or Rapa Nui Anchorages are few and depending on the wind. We will have time to visit the famous Maui figures. Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean . The island rises over a large submarine platform that emerged as a result of three successive volcanoes.
Myth and reality are mixed in Rapa Nui . It is an archeological resource important at world level for the mystery of its gigantic stone statues, the moai. Its archeological vestiges turn it into an extraordinary must-do visit as it is the farthest geographical point of the earth. | 
Austra Winter 2010
