The Warner Free Lecture will be in Volunteers Hall Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. with Christina Thompson, who will talk about ...

Traditional Polynesian fare gets a Belgian twist at the "buzzy" Amigo Secreto, which serves "some of Easter Island's best food," Fodors said. There are plenty of "classy and eclectic" fish and ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

French Polynesia is just as dreamy as it gets, and one of its largest islands is pretty much the dictionary definition of the perfect tropical getaway.

I'm not surprised that this legacy iconography turns up in other parts of Polynesia as well as Easter Island.' However, the Easter Island Moai are so different from the anthropomorphic figures in ...

Did they sail from the east, from South American soil, or from Central Polynesia to the north and west? It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have ...

Hancock thinks settlers first arrived on Easter Island 12,000 years ago and stayed until Polynesian settlers arrived. He believes the Moai heads were carved over 11,000 years ago, supporting the ...

Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia, whose native name is Rapa Nui. It is famous for its archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues ...

Easter Island in the southeast, and New Zealand in the southwest, thus completing settlement, by around 1000 AD, of the area we know today as the Polynesian Triangle. When the Southeast Asian ...