Best known for the giant stone monoliths, Easter Island, 35,405.6 kilometres off the coast of Chile, is one of the most famous yet-hardly-visited sites in the world. The early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (Navel of The World). Admiral Roggeveen, who came upon the island on Easter Day in 1722, named it Easter Island. It is a small, hilly, now treeless island of volcanic origin. Sixty-three square miles in size with three extinct volcanoes (the tallest rising to 1674 feet), the island is, technically speaking, a single massive volcano rising over ten thousand feet from the Pacific Ocean floor.