Anakena is far and away the most significant beach on Easter Island. However, nearby Ovahe Beach is also worth a quick look. A small caldera (that appears as a grassy hill) separates Anakena from ...

Constructed atop Anakena Beach on the northern coast of Easter Island, Ahu Nau Nau is one of the most well-preserved and scenic moai spots on the island.

Despite being thousands of miles from the nearest inhabitable island, Easter Island was visited several times before the ...

The Easter sunrise service at Jones Beach is an annual tradition organized by the Long Island Council of Churches. This year, the service was led by the Rev. Janice Moore, who is the pastor at the ...

Nearly 1,000 mysterious, monolithic moai statues have been drawing visitors to Easter Island—a 63-square-mile speck in the ocean, 2,100 miles from continental Chile—for more than a century.

A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of ...

The deep blue waters, shimmering cliffs and palm tree-lined beaches of Easter Island face a growing threat: plastic. “So now there are some things that belonged to this beach. For example, the ...

Like most visitors to Easter Island, I was very interested in seeing a sample of the approximately 1,000 mysterious massive monolithic Moai (statues) carved from volcanic tuff between 1000 and 1600.

Long Island Easter on Long Island: ... Easter sunrise service at Jones Beach on Sunday. Credit: Daniel GoodrichLong Island has about 1.75 million Christians, ...

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.

Hundreds gathered on the sand and in the water on Marco Island on Sunday for the 34th annual Easter sunrise service. Christians celebrate their risen savior Jesus, who was crucified, died and ...

The rabbit was spotted on Penneshaw beach on Easter Sunday last year and the sighting was reported by locals to South Australia's primary industries department, the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board ...