Like the volcanoes found on Hawaii and Iceland, those on Easter Island are driven by an underlying "hotspot," a plume where molten material rises through the mantle like paraffin wax floating up a ...

Voyaging canoes moved southward, northward and southeast to ultimately inhabit Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand, all in the short period of about 400 years. When Europeans first explored the ...

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 ...