"Easter Island Would-be separatists resent what they say is an uncontrolled influx of tourists and settlers to Easter Island. Photograph: Guido Cozzi/Corbis
Community leaders on Easter Island have threatened to secede from Chile and transfer allegiance to Polynesian states in a row over land rights and immigration.
Prominent families from the indigenous Rapa Nui population have told the Pacific Islands Forum, an inter-governmental body, that they wish to renounce Chilean sovereignty and be considered part of Oceania rather than the Americas.
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