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 a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island. It’s a tiny, windswept place, famed for its colossal Moai – mysterious stone figures that each weigh ...

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma to experts ... “Now that we know more about the ...

But in that case, old bits of the plume, with the old zircons, should have been carried off by those mantle currents, away ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...