Footage of the 1976 South Pacific Festival of the Arts held in New Zealand shows dances from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and other Pacific Islands. Footage was shot by Barbara B. Smith. Please note that ...

It is dark, pleasantly nippy and easy to get sucked into the blob of tourists sitting in front of a bunch of famous statues at one of the world’s most remote places. The sun is about to break on Rapa ...

Concert pianist Mahani Teave has traveled the world, But Rapa Nui, sometimes known as Easter Island, is her home. "Rapa Nui – that's what we call ourselves here also," she said. "That's our people, ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a place of mystery, beauty and rich cultural heritage. This four-day itinerary will guide you through the island's most captivating sights and experiences, ...

Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

Why is the disappearance of a language a problem? Language is inseparable from our way of being, our thoughts, our feelings, our joys and much more. It is through our language that we show who we are.

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire caused ...

Rapa Nui’s mysterious moai statues stand in silence but speak volumes about the achievements of their creators. The stone blocks, carved into head-and-torso figures, average 13 feet (4 meters) tall ...