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1.- The archaeological (and scientific) Island
This island is surely the richest portion of archaeological land in the universe. It is in itself
an extensive museum, it is a compendium of the history of man, is an altar to our ancestors.
The areas of greater wealth and density of vestiges must be reserved and be protected as a
culture treasure.
Some of these vestiges must be recovered in diverse points of the island, carefully selecting
expressions of every age, without damaging the other that are interlaced, in order to restore
some tangible images of the past for the experts, the fans and the visitors.
The rest must remain untouched to allow future and permanent investigations.
The areas with a smaller density of vestiges and all the rest of the island must be under a
protective legislation that allows the recovery of archaeological relics, the complementary
investigation, the protection of precise sites, the maintenance of the places and its easy
accessibility.
In this island, a great training center of a high university level is required, in the same
direction that, at the moment, has the Training center of the Universidad de Chile, extended
with laboratories, classrooms, library, museum of “pieces”, work rooms, conference and
congress halls, guests houses, etc., for the concentration of permanent and sporadic
investigators from all the Chilean universities that may require it and for the great research
centers worldwide in all the characteristic and compatible matters.
In this University Training center, many sciences, investigations and arts can be held,
in addition to the archaeological ones, such as: Anthropology, Geology, Climatology,
Seismology, Volcanology, Espelcología, History, Ethnology, Entomology, Ornithology,
Botany, Oceanography, Sociology, etc. and all its Technological and artistic derivations.
The authority of this island must approve, like those of all the other islands, all work and all
activity that is developed in all the island territory. It must promptly provide the alternatives
and modifications that are necessary, and when it is necessary must be against any project
in order to protect its relics, resources, or functions.
This authority cannot be passive or contemplative, it must search for the solutions that the
other six islands need, with equal level of decision and responsibility, within a Multi-Sector
Director Plan that unites all the interests of each island, in the context of the Nation, beyond
the regional levels, since it really belongs to none of them.