Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When surgeon J. Linton Palmer landed on Easter Island in 1868 onboard HMS Topaze, he found the marks of disaster. The island, ...
For generations, Easter Island has been associated with a dramatic story of ecological destruction and civilizational collapse. But genetic analysis of 15 individuals from Rapa Nui is challenging that ...
They say Easter Island is the most-remote inhabited place on Earth. Lying in the southern Pacific, it is 3,512 kilometres off the coast of Chile. In the opposite direction, heading westward, the ...