Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that ...

Island (Rapa Nui), a small island in the Polynesian Triangle, is famous for its mysterious moai statues and rich history. With diverse habitats and ancient secrets, it remains one of the most ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob ... assembled evidence that the first settlers came from another Polynesian island, but they can’t agree on which one. Estimates of when people ...

No one has navigated a raft or voyaging canoe from Polynesia to Easter Island since the early settlers arrived here in AD 400. For the ancient Polynesians, finding Easter Island, a small 64-square ...

Did they sail from the east, from South American soil, or from Central Polynesia to the north and west? It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

Traditional Polynesian fare gets a Belgian twist at the "buzzy" Amigo Secreto, which serves "some of Easter Island's best food," Fodors said. There are plenty of "classy and eclectic" fish and ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

for Easter Island was possibly the last place on earth to be permanently settled. It was another thousand years before European sailors matched the Polynesian feats of navigation, and when they ...

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter ... Polynesian Moai statues and archaeological sites. Tourism, the main industry on the island ...