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 ...
There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...
The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma to experts ... “Now that we know more about the location of freshwater [...] the location of these monuments and ...
The following statistics on Easter Island's moai are the results of Van ... were successfully transported to a variety of image ahu locations....Another 92 are recorded as "in transport," 47 ...
It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...
This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...
It concludes at sunset in the South Atlantic Ocean, with some key locations where dedicated eclipse chasers are sure to be. Easter Island, Chile: 2:03 p.m. EAST on October 2 Cochrane, Chile ...
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 ...