About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island ... to transport statues to every part of the island," Van Tilburg says. Explore great travel deals A ...

The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui live on the island, which belongs to Chile.

By Cook’s time, the islanders had toppled many of their statues and were neglecting those left standing. But the art of Easter Island still ... at the University of Chile in Santiago, he is ...

Marc Shields hails from West Auckland but is a long-term resident of Rapa Nui - he tells Paddy what life is like on the ...

Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

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 ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

Until 1966, Chile continued to lease Easter Island to the Williamson ... greater protection of the sacred Moai head statues. Erected during the island’s Ancestor Cult epoch, which continued ...

The move follows five years of efforts by environmental organizations and the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, famous for its extreme isolation and mysterious stone statues known as Moai.

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 ...