Like the volcanoes found on Hawaii and Iceland, those on Easter Island are driven by an underlying "hotspot," a plume where molten material rises through the mantle like paraffin wax floating up a ...

Voyaging canoes moved southward, northward and southeast to ultimately inhabit Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand, all in the short period of about 400 years. When Europeans first explored the ...

Darus' family members in Hawaii are deeply involved with the ... Claudio Cristino has been Easter Island's resident archaeologist for the past two decades. He is also Assistant Professor of ...