However they got to Easter Island, ... Anakena, the beach where Hunt did his research, would have been a good place to keep their canoes and to go fishing, but not a good place to live.

The outrigger canoe is today part of every Polynesian island child's upbringing, except on Easter Island. There, the outrigger canoe was lost sometime in the mid-1800s." ...

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 ...

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).

With Easter Island being 1,700 miles from the Gambier islands, ... And using giant twin-hulled canoe catamarans, they were able to take adequate amounts of food and fresh water.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, sits in the Pacific Ocean, about 2,200 miles off the coast of Chile, and is among the world’s most remote inhabited islands. The island has drawn more than ...