Easter Island, over 2,000 miles (3,219 km) from the coast of Chile, has over a thousand stone statues -- giant heads that were carved centuries ago by the island's inhabitants -- which have ...

A fire, from a human or volcano, on Easter Island, Chile, caused irreparable damage to the Moai statues, or Easter Island heads, mayor says. Photo from the Municipalidad de Rapa Nui A fire on ...

I am perched above the kilometre-wide crater of Rano Kau, on the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island ... hills while being watched by huge stone heads – imposing relics of a ...

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Tourists take photos of Moai stone statues on Easter island of Chile, April 5, 2024. Easter Island, known for its giant stone-carved heads facing out to sea, is located at the southernmost point ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures ... the local head of the ...

An unknown number of the stone-carved statues have been affected by the blaze ... said. Easter Island has nearly 1,000 of the megaliths, known as moai. They have oversized heads and generally ...

Located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...

Easter Island came to the world's attention in 1962 when pictures of moai appeared in National Geographic magazine. "Massive heads carved of stone stand vigil on this island so remote, that the ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements ... island lies some 3,500 km (2,174 miles) off the coast of Chile and is the most remote inhabited island on the planet.