Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues.

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

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 ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

Witness the mysterious beauty of Easter Island from above with this captivating drone footage. Soar over the iconic moai statues, the rugged coastline, and the volcanic landscapes. Marvel at the ...

New moai discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice president. A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week ...

More than 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 ...

Easter island, also known as Rapa Nui ... downhill and smashed into a statue's ceremonial platform. Another moai statue, known as Hoa Hakananai'a and on display at the British Museum in London ...

called moai, have stood for centuries. By Johnny Diaz Some of the ancient monolithic statues in Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island have been damaged beyond repair in a wildfire, the ...

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