There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... a tiny dot in the middle of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds ...

For the ancient Polynesians, finding Easter Island, a small 64-square-mile speck in this vast ocean, must have been like finding a needle in a haystack; but the Polynesian community today is ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large ... which indicates that banana plants—a species that could not have crossed the ocean without human intervention—were present on the island ...

The only other place it's viewable from will be Easter Island, 3,700 kilometers) off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. It's home to about 1,00 monliths called moai that stare at the ocean ...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) may be a remote speck in the vast Pacific Ocean, but this volcanic island has much to offer travelers. From the iconic moai statues that dot the landscape to natural ...

National Geographic reported in 2022 that there were 1,043 complete statues on Easter Island. The moai are carved out of volcanic stone. Most face inland, except for seven that face the ocean.

It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have taken a minimum of two weeks, covering several thousand miles of seemingly endless ocean. It is clear ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... The people of the southern Pacific Ocean, the Polynesians, were without question the greatest open ocean voyagers in the ...

Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization built the Easter Island statues more than 11,000 years old. (photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant ...