Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes ... "And that just so happened to coincide with a poorly understood phase of mountain building and crust deformation in that exact spot.

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 Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges are deep-sea mountain ranges with multiple ... the range spanning from Chile to Rapa Nui (‘Easter Island’) as well as two existing marine protected areas ...