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"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 ...

His wife and children would return to Punta Arenas each winter, but Genskowski would remain at the cabin, often cut off from ...

For Australians and New Zealanders, Easter Island may well seem a long way to travel for a small Polynesian island bereft of palm trees and luscious stretches of white, powdery beaches, its iconic ...

Easter Island is 2,500 miles from mainland Chile, 7,000 miles from New Zealand; Boris Johnson visits with his wife, Carrie, ... You never saw a landscape so enchanting or so lonely.

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 ...

On Easter Island (Rapa Nui in Polynesian), the moai are visibly deteriorating, ... The image of stoic giant figures with charred faces resting in a landscape of ashes moved the whole world.

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated researchers for centuries. A new genetic study disproves the popular theory that the Rapanui population ...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated researchers for centuries. A new genetic study published in this week's Nature disproves the popular ...

So rather than being a cautionary tale, "Easter Island is a great case of how populations adapt to limited resources on a finite place, and do so sustainably." DOI: Science Advances, 2024. 10.1126 ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...