Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people ... The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved ...

But could we ever imagine her in one piece now? Standing on the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui are around 900 carved statues. European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island ... How did they move such huge statues without the use of modern tools? And where did the society go?

The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues would have taken days ...

Rapa Nui’s megaliths are called moai, and 15 of them stand with their backs to the Pacific Ocean at a site known as ahu Tongarikia. Visitors congregate as close as permitted to the statues ...

monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui puzzle. The island has a mysterious past, and it is not clear when ...

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 ...

Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge (sled ... suggested to date are daunting-to-impossible on the rolling Rapa Nui terrain." Moai: Concrete replica with the dimensions of a statistically ...

Why? It crosses Easter Island (Rapa Nui), known for its giant stone statues of human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1250 and 1500. Many are set on stone platforms called ahu around ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Hoa Hakananai'a statue (made between 1000 and 1200). Stone; from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific Ocean ...