Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) refutes best-selling population collapse theory
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 ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
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 ...
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Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...
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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific ... Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken ...
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Exploring Easter Island: Top 5 Moai Statue Sites
Located on the western side of Rapa Nui, Ahu Akivi is one of the few ceremonial platforms to be located inland rather than on ...