Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that much of it was passed along via oral tradition. Over the years, some have ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... The heavy rectangular head is huge, almost as wide as the torso below. The overhanging brow is one straight line, running ...

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

Hotu Matu'a and his family landed on Easter Island at Anakena Beach. Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui, is one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands. Congressman Faleomavaega has been representing the territory of American Samoa in the ...

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 ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...