As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most often ... Still, remnants of their former glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their deep ... the addition of hats is likely related to honouring ancestors. The head is traditionally thought to contain ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground ... the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific ... their beaks touching at the back of the statue's neck. On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks ...

With one rope around the head of the statue and another ... rough terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet, nine ...

and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time ...

The mayor of Easter Island has called for motor restrictions to be put in place in the area after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue. Pedro Edmunds Paoa told local media that the incident ...