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 ...

Everything you need to know about traveling to Rapa Nui, Chile. Located more than 2,000 miles west of South America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is ...

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 ...

"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.

mayor of Easter Island, a territory of Chile. “Because what the fire does is heat the rock and the rock cracks.” He said scientists are going to visit the island alongside park administrators ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world's most remote island, where moai stand and stare at the stars, will experience an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024. For one eclipse-chaser, it's unmissable. Would you travel 8,467 ...

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 ...