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 is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

An earthquake measuring 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale struck Chile's Easter Islands in the South ... among the almost 6,000 inhabitants of the island, which belongs to Chile despite being ...

“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 ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter Island in the mid ...

Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long ... Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history ...

There are two ways in: by boat or by plane, via Santiago, Chile. LATAM is the only airline that flies out of Santiago into Hanga Roa, the capital of Easter Island. It takes about five-and-a-half ...