HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

when Dutch explorers arrived at Easter island on Easter Sunday (hence the name), that its existence became known to the world at large. But the new study suggests that this might not have always ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

More than 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, a Chilean territory some 2,200 miles from the mainland, is a protected national park and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Researchers believe the island's first residents arrived more ...

If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter Island ... of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places—a small, previously ...

surfing, and enticing beaches when a bit of relaxation is in order. Giant moai statues dot the grassy flanks of an extinct volcano on Easter Island.

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population ... Rapa Nui is one of the world's most remote locations to be inhabited by people. Rapa Nui was first settled around 1000 A.D., likely by people ...

One of the most remote populated islands in the world, Easter Island is now a popular tourist ... Putting Tullahoma on the roadside attraction map Smith, who lives across the street from the ...

Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered ... used satellite images to map out rock gardens on the island. Rock gardening is ...