But researchers have long assumed that many thousands of people ... life would have been more difficult than in the easily accessible lagoons or reefs of other islands in Polynesia. Rapa Nui ...

Rapa Nui is part of Chile, although the island is 3,500 kilometres west of the mainland. Tapia is from Santiago, making him one of the few Chileans to join the roughly 100,000 people who visit ...

These excursions offer a unique perspective on how the Rapa Nui people connect with their environment ... you'll encounter a ...

The oldest moai dates back to 1300, and among the Rapa Nui people there was a belief that their chiefs were "descended from the gods and that after death they would once again become divine ...

The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a body within the Organization of American States, has issued Precautionary Measures to protect the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.

The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean—the eastern most of which is Rapa Nui, or Easter Island—were initially ... researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 800 ...