Poike

Poike is one of three main extinct volcanoes that form Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean), at 370 metres it is the island's second highest peak after Terevaka.

Poike forms the eastern headland of Rapa Nui, and there is an abrupt cliff "the Poike ditch" across the island marking the boundary between flows from Terevaka and "Poike". Poike last erupted between 230,000 to 705,000 years ago in the Pleistocene, and as the oldest of Easter Island's three volcanoes is the most weathered with relatively stoneless soil.

ee also

*List of volcanoes in Chile
*List of volcanoes in Pacific Ocean

References

* [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/petroj/online/Volume_38/Issue_06/default.html| Haase, Stoffers & Garbe-Schoenberg]
* ROUTLEDGE, Katherine. 1919. "The Mystery of Easter Island. The story of an expedition." London.
* VAN TILBURG, Jo Anne. 1994. "Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology and Culture." Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

External links

* [http://islandheritage.org/vg/visitorguide.html Guide to Easter Island] from the Easter Island Foundation