By Thomas May From her home, halfway up the highest hill on Rapa Nui, Mahani Teave was describing the power of nature there to overwhelm. “On one side, I have an almost 180-degree view of the ...

These include securing authorized accommodation, obtaining return tickets and completing the Rapa Nui Entry Form. These measures help protect the island's environment and manage tourism effectively.

A forest fire broke out Monday and swept through 247 acres of the Rapa Nui National Park, which covers 40% of Easter Island, officials there said.

Formed 3 million years ago by an underwater volcanic eruption, the island of Rapa Nui is a mere 63-square-mile triangular speck deep in the South Pacific—2,237 miles from the coast of its home ...

Mysterious, statue-laden Rapa Nui, dubbed Easter Island by European colonizers, is not an easy place to thrive. At more than 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, it is one of Earth’s ...

Rapa Nui Civilization Built Moai by Freshwater Locations Published Oct 10, 2018 at 7:32 AM EDT Updated Oct 11, 2018 at 3:45 AM EDT Moai represent the ancestors of the Rapa Nui people.

Mahani Teave grew up on one of the most remote islands on Earth, but the 38-year-old pianist still found a way to bring her music to the world — and music education to Rapa Nui. Jeffrey Brown ...

Little Sophora toromiro, is far from home, no longer present on Rapa Nui, the Pacific island where it evolved. Also known as Easter Island, or Isla de Pascua in Spanish, Rapa Nui is a speck of ...

Ranging from two to 20 metres in height, Rapa Nui’s 900 moai are an incredible sight (Unesco World Heritage approved, no less) but, thanks to climate change, many of them could soon be under threat.

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui people that reduced time spent building statues, but not all archaeologists ...

Early European visitors to Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, wrote in the late 1700s that the islanders carried spears topped with sharp, triangular pieces of glassy lava, or obsidian.