Two double-hulled canoes have arrived on Easter Island after a three-month journey from New Zealand using only traditional navigation techniques. The expedition, named Waka Tapu, or Sacred Canoe ...

Whatever happened on Easter Island, it wasn't good. Polynesians landed there, farmed, thrived, built their famous statues, and then things went very bad, very fast. Sixteen million trees vanished.

Unleash your inner explorer with a rental car on Easter Island. ... The immense rock slab in the ground features a carving of a canoe with two hulls measuring 39 feet (12 meters).

Carved from obsidian, or volcanic glass, thousands of the triangular objects, known as mata'a, litter the surface of the island. Some scientists have estimated, that, at its height, Easter Island ...

Members of the Easter Island Statue Project have been excavating the statues for years, and provided the first photos of their torsos in 2012. This surprised many, with people believing they only ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

First, the island’s population was reduced from several tens of thousands in its heyday, to a diminutive 1,500-3,000 when Europeans first arrived in the early 18th century.

According to Easter Island: The Truth Revealed, approximately 1,500 to 2,000 people – half the population – were taken in 1862 in a raid by slave traders from Peru to work there, predominately ...