It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

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

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

Hotu Matu'a and his family landed on Easter Island at Anakena Beach. Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui, is one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands. Congressman Faleomavaega has been representing the territory of American Samoa in the ...

According to LAN Airlines, there will be two weekly flights between Lima and Rapa Nui, on Wednesdays and Sundays. Easter Island mayor Luz Sazzo said this flight path will benefit the local and ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...