Easter Island, Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world and is famous for its giant stone statues. To its original inhabitants the island is known as Rapa Nui, and its population is predominantly of Polynesian descent.

Learn about the Rapa Nui people, their moai statues, and their environmental and cultural legacy on this isolated Pacific island. Find out how to get there, when to visit, and what to see on this World Heritage site.

Too far south for a tropical climate, lacking coral reefs and perfect beaches, and whipped by perennial winds and seasonal downpours, Easter Island nonetheless possesses a rugged beauty—a mixture...

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past. A millennium ago, a brave group of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world’s most isolated places — a small, previously uninhabited island they named Rapa Nui.

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai.

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, as it is known to its indigenous inhabitants, is a small, isolated island in the South Pacific Ocean that has captivated the world‘s imagination for centuries.

Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people.

Easter Island - Moai, Rapa Nui, Statues: The island is famous for its gigantic stone statues, of which there are more than 600, and for the ruins of giant stone platforms (ahus) with open courtyards on their landward sides, some of which show masterly construction.

Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is the most remote inhabited island in the world. Find out the best time to visit Easter Island and get some insider tips.