As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

Easter Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the large stone heads. Hancock thinks settlers first arrived there 12,000 years ago and stayed until Polynesian settlers arrived. He also argues the ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

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The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an ... The volcanic stone figures, called moai in the island’s native Polynesian language, are understood to have been carved ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... can be rare to find on the island," and another is access to the Manavai Spa, a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water ...

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions ... These are carved human figures with oversized heads, often resting on huge stone pedestals called ahus.