How did the first inhabitants of Easter ... of the Pacific are intimately tied to the ocean. They sailed the sea hundreds of years before Europeans, using voyaging canoes crafted from island ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... a tiny dot in the middle of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds ...

It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have taken a minimum of two weeks, covering several thousand miles of seemingly endless ocean. It is clear ...