Scientists have stumbled upon a strange megastructure deep inside the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island, which may be the reason behind the East Pacific Rise - which is the fastest spreading ocean ...

also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa ... a tiny dot in the middle of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive ...

The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island requires ... except for seven that face the ocean. In February, scientists ...

The only other place it's viewable from will be Easter Island, 3,700 kilometers) off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. It's home to about 1,00 monliths called moai that stare at the ocean ...

It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have taken a minimum of two weeks, covering several thousand miles of seemingly endless ocean. It is clear ...

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 settled by a wave of migration from Asia. It’s been less ...

Experts pointed out that similar statues on surrounding Pacific Islands have similar poses. "[Easter Island] is one of the most amazing places on planet Earth that I have been to. It is riddled ...