Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on ...

Easter Island is about 2,200 miles west of the coast of Chile. The fire burning at night on Easter Island. The remains of an Easter Island head overlooking the fire-scorched crater.

Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local language and Isla de Pascua in Spanish, is a Chilean dependency in the Pacific Ocean that is famous for the “moai” statues that dot its landscape.

One is wearing a sombrero or maybe it’s a pukao. Easter Island Heads, Victoria, northbound frontage road of Loop 463, south of Jung Tile & Granite, 5208 NE Zac Lentz Pky., free.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...

(Reuters) - A delegation from Easter Island will arrive in London next week to seek the return from the British Museum of one of the native Polynesians' emblematic statues. The seven-foot (2.13 m ...