There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... had flown across the ocean in a dream and seen Rapa Nui and its location, which he described in detail. Hotu Matu’a and his brother ...

But in that case, old bits of the plume, with the old zircons, should have been carried off by those mantle currents, away from the location of Easter Island, and could not now be there at the ...

The following statistics on Easter Island's moai are the results of Van ... were successfully transported to a variety of image ahu locations....Another 92 are recorded as "in transport," 47 ...

In the late 19th century, Cooke circumnavigated the world and later visited the Easter Islands to collect stone sculptures for the Smithsonian. The island, a territory of Chile, is known for large ...

But if Easter Island’s plume has only been active for ... a large volcanic plateau could have formed on the Phoenix Plate at the same location. About 110 million years ago, this plateau would ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam. Easter Island Ahu Tongariki. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam. Easter Island, Rano Kau. Courtesy of Flickr user Arian Zwegers.

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...