Some volcanoes, like those on Easter Island and Hawai’i, aren’t formed at plate boundaries. Instead, they appear in the middle of ocean plates, fueled by columns of rising hot rock called ...

Explore magnificent volcanoes The island owes its existence to millions of years of volcanic activity, with about 70 small vents and three major volcanoes that define the island’s triangular figure.

Easter Island’s volcanoes belong to a class known as “hotspot” volcanoes, which are common in the Pacific Ocean. These volcanoes form when plumes of hot rock rise slowly from deep in the Earth’s ...

New Easter Island statue found in volcanic crater’s dry lake. The new moai statue joins the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter Island.

A new moai was found on Easter Island in the bed of a volcano crater lake, thanks to severe drought conditions in the area. The Pacific island, located roughly 2,175 miles west of the Chilean ...

Sacred Easter Island statues suffer ‘irreparable damage’ after volcano fire By Mia Alberti and Kathleen Magramo , CNN 3 minute read ...

The fire was caused by the Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island. (Photo: Rapa Nui Council via CNN) The Rapa Nui National Park — whose name comes from the Indigenous moniker for the island — is ...

New Easter Island statue found in volcanic crater’s dry lake . March 2, 2023 at 11:17 am Updated March 3, 2023 at 4:09 am . By . The Associated Press. The Associated Press.

The fire — caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano — started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements have been charred by a fire, according to local Indigenous and Chilean authorities. The fire — caused by the nearby Rano ...