Rano Kau

Colour photo from a cliff top down onto a pond strewn marsh backed by high cliffs, an area of sea is visible through a gap in the cliffs.
View of Rano Kau from near Orongo, showing a gap at the southern end of the crater wall

Rano Kau is a 324 m (1,063 ft) tall extinct volcano that forms the southwestern headland of Easter Island, a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean. It was formed of basaltic lava flows in the Pleistocene with its youngest rocks dated at between 150,000 and 210,000 years ago.


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