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Rapanui Konturi Atan, a 36-year-old historian, right, receives instructions from Gilles Bordes, at the start of a training session for the Hoki Mai challenge, a canoe voyage — covering almost 500 kilometers, or about 300 miles across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean, in Rapa Nui, a territory that is part of Chile and is better known as Easter Island, Thursday, Nov. 24. Bordes, coordinator of Hoki Mai, moved to Rapa Nui earlier this year, but he has lived in Polynesia for three decades, devoting much of his time to rowing.