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Discover the Magic of Rapa Nui: A Perfect Four-Day Itinerary
These silent sentinels offer a glimpse into the island's fascinating past and the lives of the Rapa Nui's ancestors. Next, ...
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If They Could Only Talk
Three volcanoes, quiet now ... “Rather than a case of abject failure, Rapa Nui is an unlikely story of success,” Hunt and Lipo argue in their recent book. It’s called The Statues That ...
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On Rapa Nui, step away from the crowds to explore one of the world’s most remote places
The sun is about to break on Rapa Nui, the Polynesian island dubbed Easter Island by a Dutch seafarer in 1722. Rapa Nui’s megaliths are called moai, and 15 of them stand with their backs to the ...
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Exploring Easter Island: Top 5 Moai Statue Sites
The most important archaeological site on Rapa Nui is Rano Raraku, a volcano on the island's eastern side that the Indigenous ...
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Deep-Sea Mountains Off The Coast Of Chile Are Teeming With Life
The Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges are deep-sea mountain ranges with multiple volcanoes that extend nearly ... the range spanning from Chile to Rapa Nui (‘Easter Island’) as well as two ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
Rapa Nui National Park covers half of the island ... To see dozens of maoi in various stages of being carved, head to the Rano Raraku volcano. Being so close to the maoi makes it feel as though ...