A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

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Rapa Nui legends say the moai “walked” with ... The Chilean government claimed possession of Easter Island in 1888 and, in 1935, designated it a national park, to preserve thousands of ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui, is one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands. Congressman Faleomavaega has been representing the territory of American Samoa in the ...

Hotu Matu'a and his family landed on Easter Island at Anakena Beach. Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern ...

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 ...

West Aucklander turned Rapa Nui resident Marc Shields, gives a run-down on the island also known as Easter Island.

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Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter ... Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. In bringing the Song of ...