The coastline of Easter Island, known by locals as Rapa Nui, saw waves of up to around 30 inches on Wednesday (July 30) ...

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a unique and mysterious place, known for its moai statues and rich biodiversity. Despite its small size, it holds ancient secrets, from lost artifacts to forgotten gods, ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to ...

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

Click image to see more photos. (EISP/EISP) Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous ...