Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...

Collaborating with institutions like the University of Lausanne and the Musée de l'Homme, the team extracted and analyzed ...

The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a body within the Organization of American States, has issued Precautionary Measures to protect the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.

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.

when more than 100,000 visitors were making the trek to Rapa Nui National Park and officials scrambled to find ways to combat overtourism. Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water ...

Hoa Hakananai'a was removed from Rapa Nui ... Nui - named Easter Island by European explorers. The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui people to embody the ...

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is one of the world's most remote ... "I couldn't understand why anyone should have to leave their home and people to do something as natural as play music." ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...

Examines theories about how the stone heads of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were carved and raised ... innovation and resilience of the Rapa Nui people.

Covering about 164 square kilometers and home to about 7,700 people, half of them with Rapa Nui ancestry, Easter Island was formed at least 750,000 years ago by volcanic eruptions and is one of ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is as far away as one can get ... and now there are about 3,000 people who still carry the Rapa Nui lineage. Travelers can visit the island on various ...