HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters ... had discovered that most of the contamination is coming from their own country. "We found out that 58% of the plastic Rapa Nui gets comes from ...

Chile, the closest South American country, is located about 2,300 miles ... Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island" (Free Press, 2011) that abundant rocks on the island allowed for the ...

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 ...

Located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...

The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable ... ground assessing damage" from the fire, the country's Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage Carolina ...

Chile, a long, thin, picturesque wine-producing country on the Pacific, is no stranger to bad government. In the 1960s, Salvador Allende’s extreme left-wing policies brought the country to ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other ... Heritage Carolina Pérez Dattari said that officials from the country’s National Monuments Council (CNM) “are on the ground assessing ...

known more broadly as Easter Island. Located 2,360 miles off the coast of Chile—which annexed the country back in 1888—Rapa Nui is one of the most isolated places in the world. Its native ...

When "Good Morning America" made a recent trip to Easter Island, the whole country got a look at a new moai statue (a stone statue of a human figure) found there. Moai statues, which are hundreds ...