How Did They Survive Long Term?

How did they survive long enough to experiment with that, to not be wiped out like that's extraordinary. It's very far away from can me just say how far away from stuff? Easter island is, the nearest inhabited island is two thousand kilometers away. South america is three and a half thousandkm away. And it's just so far from it. It's kind of halfway between chile and australia, is it really? Because when i went to south america, i thought, oh, we'll just pop over to easter island for maybe a couple of days and not be really cool. And then i looked about how i would be, i'm not going to