Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...
Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...
Easter Island was discovered in 1722 by Dutch explorers, and its native population has lived on the island for hundreds of years. The oral history of the native Rapa Nui people claims that at ...