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 ...

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...

Located in the South Pacific Ocean, thousands of kilometers from the west coast of South America, the island is best known ...

a four-tonne basalt statue from the Chilean Pacific territory of Rapa Nui - named Easter Island by European explorers. The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui ...

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is one of the world's most remote inhabited island - a 164-sq-km dot in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest land is Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

naming the island after the day on which he arrived: Easter. When Roggeveen arrived in 1722, the Rapa Nui culture inhabiting it was already in decline—at least, according to archaeologists.

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...

Hotu Matu'a and his family landed on Easter Island at Anakena Beach. Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern ...

But the most surprising thing about my visit to Easter Island, known locally as Rapa Nui, was watching the moon do something extraordinary above this iconic location. Remote, barren and almost ...