A new Moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, has been discovered in the bed of a dry lake in a volcano crater. The Moai was found by scientific volunteers working to restore marshland in ...

Moai in Rapa Nui National Park on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island, Chile. There are approximately 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, but the recent discovery has excited ...

New moai discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice president. A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week ...

A new moai statue has been found on Rapa Nui, a Chilean territory also known as Easter Island, prompting excitement among researchers that there may yet be others waiting to be discovered.

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Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues.

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.