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 ...

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 ...

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

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...

"Easter Island is only about 15 miles wide and about ... only part of the U.S. that sees anything of this eclipse will be Hawaii, where it may be possible to see the two points of a “smiley ...

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 ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...