Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that ...

Famous for its monolithic Moai head stones that were mysteriously erected at the dawn of history, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Easter Island is today making headlines of a different sort.

Chile annexed Easter Island in 1888, but until 1953 it allowed ... and fewer than half the people are Rapanui. Just about every job on Easter Island depends on tourism. “Without it,” says ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of ... will support the indigenous rights of the Rapa Nui people during his planned visit to Chile this week since the United States should be a leader ...

Chile annexed the island in 1888 ... officials scrambled to find ways to combat overtourism. Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed ...

It is the most remote inhabited island on Earth. The coast of Chile ... link people had with the sea." For Van Tilburg, the Polynesian canoe is a metaphor in her theories of how the 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 ...

Named Easter Island ... at the University of Chile in Santiago, he is not sanguine. “As a scientist, I’ve spent half my life there. It’s my island! And now people are already clearing ...