Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

Mataveri International Airport on Easter Island, is known as the most remote airport in the world for its distance from ...

"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 stone heads called moai that dot its hills and coastline. They were carved ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote islands on Earth, located about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the nearest landmass, the Pitcairn Islands, and more than 2,100 miles ...

Planning a trip to Easter Island? Here's a complete guide to the remote Chilean territory, also known as Rapa Nui, including how to get there and where to stay.

Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Settled by a small group of Polynesian seafarers about 900 years ago, it’s a ...

Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile. The discovery of crystal "time capsules" on the island has challenged the idea that the Earth’s crust and mantle might move together like ...

On Easter Island (Rapa Nui in Polynesian), the moai are visibly deteriorating, with some experts warning that these majestic stone statues could turn to sand within a few decades.

Easter Island, known for its giant stone-carved heads facing out to sea, is located at the southernmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in the South Pacific, ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Besides, I've wanted to visit Easter Island ever since I started writing about astro-tourism and solar eclipses in 2009, when I noticed there was to be a total solar eclipse there on Jul. 11, 2010.