Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos One journal in 2019, showed that the placement of ahus around the coast corresponds with sources of freshwater, which would've been vital to ...

Located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...

May, the month that worked best for our trip to Easter Island, is historically the wettest of the year. It's about a 13-mile, 30-minute drive from Pu o Hiro on the northeast coast to the Tahai ...

Altiplanico Easter Island also has a restaurant that serves ... La Kaleta, which sits on the same stretch of coast, is also popular. The menu is written on a chalkboard outside and changes daily ...

Aforest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island has charred ... The world’s most remote inhabited island lies 2,175 miles off the western coast of Chile and is for many travelers a ...

Easter Island is about 2,200 miles west of the coast of Chile. The fire burning at night on Easter Island. Photo from Brigada de Protección Ambiental CONAF Rapa Nui The remains of an Easter ...

from the coast of Chile. Both Hancock and archaeologists agree that how anyone ever reached Easter Island is nothing short of a 'miracle.' However, unlike the academics, Hancock suggests that the ...

Image 1 of 4 View of Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- in Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on August 5, 2022. (Photo by PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP via ...

have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to change that by creating large and unusual monuments to ...

remnants of an extinct megalithic culture that were rediscovered in 1722 by a Dutch explorer. Easter Island is about 2,200 miles west of the coast of Chile.