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and is less than 400,000 years old. Its lava field at Roiho has been dated at between 110,000 and 150,000 years old. Terevaka can be climbed via a trail that starts next to the moai at
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Vezzoli L, Acocella V, 2009. Easter Island, SE Pacific: an end-member type of hotspot volcanism. Geol Soc Amer Bull, 121: 869–886.
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Kaneoka I, Katsui Y, 1985. K-Ar ages of volcanic rocks from Easter Island. Bull Volc Soc Japan, 30: 33–36.
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While Terevaka forms the bulk of Easter Island, the island has two older volcanic peaks:
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is the largest, tallest (507.41 m (1,664.73 ft)) and youngest of three main
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Karsten M. Haase; Peter Stoffers; C. Dieter Garbe-Schönberg (October 1997).
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Terevaka is the 12th most topographically isolated summit on Earth.
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above and Rano Kau at top – a west up photo from Nasa
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Easter Island § Geology

Elevation
Coordinates
27°5′4″S 109°22′46″W / 27.08444°S 109.37944°W / -27.08444; -109.37944
Easter Island
Mountain type
Shield volcano
Last eruption
Pleistocene
extinct volcanoes
Easter Island
Poike
Rano Kau
Pleistocene
Ahu Akivi
Map of Rapa Nui showing Terevaka, Poike and Rano Kau
Rapa Nui
Poike
Rano Kau
Terevaka from space with Hanga Roa above and Rano Kau at top – a west up photo from Nasa
Hanga Roa
List of volcanoes in Chile
List of islands by highest point
Topographic isolation
"The Petrogenetic Evolution of Lavas from Easter Island and Neighbouring Seamounts, Near-ridge Hotspot Volcanoes in the SE Pacific"
doi
10.1093/petrology/38.6.785
Maunga Terevaka, Chile
"World Peaks with 300 km of Isolation"

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