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Te Pito Kura - The ancient Rapa Nui referred to their island as Te Pito Kura, or "The Navel of the World." They also gave that name to a sacred stone, perfectly round and made of magnetic ore — volcanic basalt, perhaps, or maybe even a meteorite.