There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter Island. Chilean tour companies offer a range of ceremonies on beautiful island locales that include ...

Also known as Easter Island, or Isla de Pascua in Spanish, Rapa Nui is a speck of land in the Pacific, 2,200 miles from the ...

In the heart of Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island ... Fortunately, seeds collected from the final known specimen were sent to Chile’s national botanical garden in Viña del Mar, where ...

The Rapa Nui National Park has two official protections. On one hand, since 1935 it has been a national park, administered by the National Forest Service of Chile (CONAF). On the other hand, the ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...

By the time British captain James Cook arrived in 1774, the Rapa Nui population had plummeted and was decimated further in the 1800s by smallpox epidemics and Peruvian slave raids. Chile annexed ...

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Buscemi is also a director, with his last movie, The Listener , starring Tessa Thompson, premiering at the 2022 Venice Film ...

A comprehensive programme for the preservation of Rapa Nui has been prepared by the National Conservation Centre, the University of Chile and the National Forestry Agency (CONAF) and submitted for ...