Located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders ... their ancestors – they wanted to have physical images to represent them," she added. "And that's what the ...

Few places on Earth are as well known for their so-called mysteries as Easter ... the island once had? Squint as hard as you like: there are no other islands in this part of the world. Google ...

An unconfirmed number of the towering stone statues have been damaged (Picture: AFP) A fire had torn through the Rapa Nui National Park in Easter Island (Picture: Getty Images) A nearby volcano ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

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A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter ... Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on August 5, 2022. (Photo by PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP via Getty Images) The ...

This photo taken on April 5, 2024 shows a Moai stone statue on Easter Island. Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images “That gives credit to the Rapa Nui people, their ancestors ...