And it's not much further if you're driving from Hanga Roa. Anakena offers the only sand beach on Easter Island and a nice scenery change from the rough volcanic rock coastline. Several vendors ...

Long-term resident and Realtor Patricia Romano recently traveled to visit family in Chile and while there, took time to visit ...

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 ...

Natalia Pardo-Villaveces (left) and Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte (right) wash beach sand and soil samples. "We found hundreds of zircon grains on Easter Island," Rojas-Agramonte said. Natalia Pardo ...

The Pacific island of Rapa Nui — also called Easter ... Plastic and Microplastic Pollution in the Region' on Ana Kena beach, Easter Island, Chile, April 5 2024. Elvis Gonzalez/EPA-EFE ...

At around 14:04 Easter Island Summer Time ... Two years later, I sat on the beach in Palm Cove in Queensland, Australia, where watched first a sunrise and then a totally eclipsed sun for 122 ...