In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile’s Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made ...

Famous for its monolithic Moai head ... the island’s shore. Located more than 1,200 miles east of the Pitcairn Island (its nearest inhabited neighbor), and 2,000 miles west of Chile, Easter ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...

The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads known as Moai, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians.

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet officially created a 740,000-square kilometer marine reserve around remote Easter Island ... the Rapa Nui,” Marcelo Mena, Chile's environment minister ...