Easter Island was annexed by Chile in 1888 ... There are now 3 dormant volcanoes that dominate the landscape. This one is called 'Rano Kau.' No one knows exactly how many archaeological sites ...

Easter Island is world-renowned for its monolithic ... a luxurious stay for guests without harming the surrounding natural landscape. Circular buildings covered with lush green roofs and natural ...

also known as Easter Island, never had a catastrophic population collapse, a new study proposes. The finding may upend decades of assumptions about how overexploitation of the landscape by the ...

By the 19th century none were standing. Easter Island’s landscape acquired the aura of tragedy that, in the eyes of Diamond and many others, it retains today. Rearrange and reinterpret the ...

However, the volcanic activity that created Easter Island’s landscape cannot have been occurring for 165 million years because the tectonic plate beneath the island is not that old. The only plausible ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

"Easter Island Origins." Right now ... there are more than 1,000 of these giant carved figures scattered across the landscape. Cut from volcanic rock, some are more than 30 feet high.

Chilean and local authorities were working to assess damage to famous stone statues on Easter Island after a fire sparked earlier this week on the remote territory. The fire, which began Tuesday ...

Photos from Easter Island were posted on social media showing the charred statues and smoke dotting the landscape. Image Fire damage in the Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island on Thursday ...

In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed a previously unknown statue. The new find is one of the moai, the famous stone figures located around ...

A forest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island this week has charred some ... Polynesian settlers who “created an unrivaled landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout ...

What they found has fascinated and confounded the world ever since, giant stone statues that tower over the island's landscape. They're called moai, and as we learned our first morning on Easter ...