By then Easter Island had only a few scrawny trees. In the 1970s and 1980s, though, biogeographer John Flenley of New Zealand’s Massey University found evidence—pollen preserved in lake ...

A highlight is watching competitors come together to support one another during events like the banana tree trunk toboggan run. Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with nature.

name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished. Upon arrival, early Rapanui settlers would have planted the plants that they brought with them: banana trees, taro root, and perhaps even the ...

View of Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- on Easter Island ... deforested the small island -- which is known to have once been covered in palm trees -- to keep supporting the ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of ... Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge (sled) made from a tree fork. 180 islanders pulled the statue using ...

French Polynesia is just as dreamy as it gets, and one of its largest islands is pretty much the dictionary definition of the ...