Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time British captain James Cook arrived in ...

Easter Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with at least two layovers, take about 30 hours. However ...

A Anyone lucky enough to be travelling to Chile should take up the chance to visit Easter Island if they can possibly afford it. This distant volcanic fragment is one of the most beautiful and ...

"On a crisp September morning, I rushed out to Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku in order to see the sun rise over the 15 moai." Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam.

Narrator] Most visitors come all the way to Easter Island because of these stone statues, the moai. Constructed between 1300 and sometime after the 1700s, there are more than 1000 of these giant ...

While most people visit Rapa Nui to explore its cultural ... Giant moai statues dot the grassy flanks of an extinct volcano on Easter Island.

Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads. Easter Island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to about 50 ...

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders ... walking the statues would have been an efficient method. "You see the engineering that went into being able ...