Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui people that reduced time spent building statues, but not all archaeologists agre ...

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 ...

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”.

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.

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.

Thousands of people were abducted from Easter Island in the early ... “To be so warmly welcomed onto the island, to build relationships with Rapa Nui representatives, and to have the opportunity ...

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 ...

when more than 100,000 visitors were making the trek to Rapa Nui National Park and officials scrambled to find ways to combat overtourism. Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water ...

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 ...