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

Marc Shields hails from West Auckland but is a long-term resident of Rapa Nui - he tells Paddy what life is like on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 legends say the moai “walked” with ... The Chilean government claimed possession of Easter Island in 1888 and, in 1935, designated it a national park, to preserve thousands of ...