On Easter Island, which lies some 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles) off the west coast of Chile, 100 hectares have been razed by flames since Monday, Perez said.

On Easter Day 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. A civilisation isolated by 4,000km of Pacific Ocean was about to meet the outside world for the first time in centuries.

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Popular theory claiming Easter Island’s population collapsed due to ‘ecocide’ is disproved. How modern archaeological research has rescued the reputation of the world’s most remote ancient ...

Easter Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the large stone heads. Hancock thinks settlers first arrived there 12,000 years ago and stayed until Polynesian settlers arrived.

A NEW study has shed light on a 400-year-old indigenous tribe on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. It was previously believed that the indigenous population on Easter Island had collapsed i… ...

The small island is only 63.2 square miles in area, and has a population of 7,750, according to the 2017 census. Stock image of a row of moai statues on Easter island looking eroded.

Easter Island reopened just three months ago following on from the Covid-19 pandemic. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected]. For more stories like this, check our ...

Scientists on Easter Island say they have uncovered another of its iconic moai head statues after a lake in an extinct volcano dried up. The monolithic head carving was found on its side submerged ...

The British Museum’s social media accounts have been inundated with comments telling it to return a moai statue to Easter Island. The museum currently displays two moai, taken from the Chilean ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues. The ...