SANTIAGO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Chile's Easter Island received its first group of tourists on Thursday after closing its borders for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Easter Island ...

A fire, from a human or volcano, on Easter Island, Chile, caused irreparable damage to the Moai statues, or Easter Island heads, mayor says. Photo from the Municipalidad de Rapa Nui A fire on ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. The high ...

In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile’s Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made ...

A few hundred eclipse chasers flocked to Chile's Rapa Nui to see annularity from the home of the mysterious moai. RAPA NUI (EASTER ISLAND), Chile — Eclipse-chasers from across the globe gathered ...

meaning Easter Island. Chile annexed it in the 19th century, and in 1965, the people of Rapa Nui became Chilean citizens. Today, the population of approximately 8,500 is a fairly even mix of those ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it's ...

If something in your gut is pulling you to consider moving to Chile from the U.S. then this article is for you. In geography ...

And that is where my modest proposal comes in. In the nineteenth century Great Britain encouraged Chile to seize Easter Island. The small island, one of the most isolated human societies ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.