Mapping
Source: IE
Context: Scientists recently discovered 160 species, with at least 50 potentially new to science, during an expedition across the Salas y Gómez Ridge to Easter Island. The findings include various marine life like squid, fish, corals, molluscs, and sea stars.
The ridge, home to over 110 seamounts, supports diverse ecosystems and is crucial for marine animal migration.
About Salas y Gómez:
It is an underwater mountain chain in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, oriented west-east from the East Pacific Rise to the Nazca Ridge. Isolated by geographic features like the Atacama Trench and the Humboldt Current System, its waters are mostly in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
About Easter Island
It is a Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Famous for its monumental statues called moai, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. Chile annexed the island in 1888, granting citizenship to the Rapa Nui in 1966. It is one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands, with the nearest land over 2,000 kilometres away.
