DENVER—A 12-year-old Morrison girl who knew that Easter Island also has the name of Rapa Nui is Colorado’s new geography champ. Isabella Contolini won the crown at the University of Denver ...

Easter Island Mystery revealed using mathematical model. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com. September 1, 2005. Jared Diamond, a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA, has explored the ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

Island, or Rapa Nui, is a unique and mysterious place, known for its moai statues and rich biodiversity. Despite its small ...

Long before the Europeans arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the native Polynesian culture known as Rapa Nui showed signs of demographic decline. However, the catalyst has long been debated in the ...

However, the volcanic activity that created Easter Island’s landscape cannot have been occurring for 165 million years because the tectonic plate beneath the island is not that old. The only plausible ...

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures.

Find Easter Island on a map and look at some images of the famous statues, or ‘Moai’ as they are known. Discuss with pupils what it would be like to visit a remote island like this and ask ...

FAR out in the Pacific ocean is the picturesque, if somewhat bleak, Easter Island. This little piece of Chile is one of the isolated places on Earth to have a permanent settlement and has long ...

An astrophotographer who visited Easter Island for the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024, shared a stunning view of the "ring of fire." ...

New research using satellite imagery and machine learning offers a fresh clue in the mystery of what happened to the original settlers of Easter Island. CNN values your feedback 1.