There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

There’s substantial evidence that Polynesian people discovered South America way before Columbus. After all, 10% of Easter ...

He shakes his head. “How did they do it?” Easter Island covers just 63 square miles. It lies 2,150 miles west of South America and 1,300 miles east of Pitcairn, its nearest inhabited neighbor.

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island ... the closest inhabited Polynesian ...

Linguists estimate Easter Island ... South America could have colonized the Pacific? According to Thor Heyerdahl, people from a pre-Inca society took to the seas from Peru and voyaged east to west ...

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island ... and the nearest island, with a total population of 54 people, is tiny Pitcairn island, 1,400 miles to the west. The answer lies in the deeply ...

People from Chile's Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, also had South American ... Rapa Nui, located 3,700 km west of South America and known for its massive stone figures called moai, was settled ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

the eclipse will be viewed as a "ring of fire" only from South America and remote parts of Chile and Argentina. The only other place it's viewable from will be Easter Island, 3,700 kilometers ...