Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, located at the south easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle, is a rather unique place. Officially belonging to the nation of Chile, the island only measures one ...

Chileans faced a poser. As possessors of Latin America’s only South Seas colony, ought they not ask for membership in the new U.N. Trusteeship Council? In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter ...

Their findings line up perfectly with Rapa Nui oral traditions, which have long claimed the statues literally walked from the ...