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It is interspersed with archive footage from 65 years ago when islanders were forced to leave Tristan da Cunha after a natural disaster.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Players can farm, fish, make friends with islanders, explore mystical ruins and travel using vehicles ranging from rollerblades to motorbikes with sidecars.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
This unshakable belief in his own self-sovereignty offers a welcome contrast to the islanders’ inherent fear of change.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
The impetus for Rapa Nui came from Thomas Athol Joyce, an ethnographer at the British Museum who’d urged the Routledges to go while elderly islanders who remembered the old ways were still alive.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Players can farm, fish, make friends with islanders, explore mystical ruins and travel using vehicles ranging from rollerblades to motorbikes with sidecars.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
This unshakable belief in his own self-sovereignty offers a welcome contrast to the islanders’ inherent fear of change.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
The impetus for Rapa Nui came from Thomas Athol Joyce, an ethnographer at the British Museum who’d urged the Routledges to go while elderly islanders who remembered the old ways were still alive.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Islander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/islander. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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islander
noun
is·land·er
ˈī-lən-dər 
: a person born or living on an island
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