In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... body of research showing this population collapse might have never happened.

Locals feel that the increase in population be it Chilean nationals or foreigners will have a negative impact in the island’s environment and heritage. Easter Island is widely famous for its ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... captain James Cook arrived in 1774, the Rapa Nui population had plummeted and was decimated further in the 1800s ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island arrive ... and the nearest island, with a total population of 54 people, is tiny Pitcairn island, 1,400 miles to the west. The answer lies in ...

they were astonished to find a large population already established. Even more astonishing were the objects which the inhabitants had made - the great monoliths of Easter Island are like nothing ...