Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that much of it was passed along via oral tradition. Over the years, some have ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... fencing them into one small village), the Rapa Nui people were all but destroyed. By 1877 there were only 110 natives left on the ...

West Aucklander turned Rapa Nui resident Marc Shields, gives a run-down on the island also known as Easter Island.

Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui ... Chile took control of the island and confined the Rapa Nui people to a small area of land, approximately one square mile”.

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.

As early as BC 5500 people in Melanesia were voyaging ... is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern, and local, name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished.

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...