A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

Sitting within the Polynesian Triangle, an area located between Hawaii, New Zealand and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), French Polynesia is made up of more than 100 islands and atolls — a landmass ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most often ... Pair this with the islands’ remoteness—1,000 miles from Polynesia, 1,400 miles from South America—not to mention ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island (Rapa Nui ... agreed that people arrived in Eastern Polynesia and on Rapa Nui sometime in the ...