Coming in a close second - and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant land - is Easter Island,which lies 1,260 miles east of its nearest neighbor,Pitcaim Island,and 2,300 miles west of South America.
緊隨其后的是復活節(jié)島,它經(jīng)常被誤講成最與世隔絕的島嶼,在離其最近的皮特凱恩群島東部1260英里外,距南美西部也有2300英里遠.
這個不是什么倒裝句,也沒有什么復雜的句型和語法,其實主干就是
Coming in a close second is Easter Island,which lies 1,260 miles east of its nearest neighbor,Pitcaim Island,and 2,300 miles west of South America.
這里有一個非限制性定語從句：“,which部分”；而句首Coming in a close second也不要想得很復雜,就是翻譯“接下來是……”
中間的- and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant land - 部分類似于一個解釋,好像我們漢語中的破折解釋,或者“即……”.