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

Island has been a source of fascination for historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not ...

In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile’s Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made ...

In 1978 he founded the Easter Island Studies Institute of the University of Chile, and acted as its first ... and currently paddles with the Kahakai Women's Masters crew in California.

“The island is not an island anymore,” says Kara Pate, 40, a Rapanui sculptor. She’s married to a German she met here 23 years ago. Chile annexed Easter Island in 1888, but until 1953 it ...

Located more than 1,200 miles east of the Pitcairn Island (its nearest inhabited neighbor), and 2,000 miles west of Chile, Easter Island marks the south-eastern point of the Polynesian “triangle ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...

Easter Island, Ahu Tongariki Courtesy of Flickr user Arian Zwegers. About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island. Just 14 miles long and 7 miles wide ...