Off the coast of Chile, Carrie Tait steps away from the tourists to soak up Easter Island’s most captivating spots ...

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...

Researchers believe the giant moai statues on Easter Island were “walked” into place using their own immense weight as ...

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 ...

Polynesian navigators used the stars to sail across the ocean, Disney’s ‘Moana’ movies help those of us who have never sailed ...

The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui people to embody the spirit of a prominent ancestor, with each considered to be the person's living incarnation.

Recent genetic research has challenged long-standing theories about the collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization on Easter Island, refuting the "ecocide" narrative and confirming pre-European contact ...

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, and local, name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished. Upon arrival ...

The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a body within the Organization of American States, has issued Precautionary Measures to protect the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...