The steady flow of tourists and mainland Chileans moving to Easter Island have forced the islander’s to threaten a formal complaint against the Chilean government.

On the island of Robinson Crusoe, about 420 miles west of the Chilean mainlaind, a huge wave covered half the village of San Juan Batista and three people were missing, said Ivan de la Maza, the ...

The monumental statues of Easter Island have made the isolated island, more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, an international tourist destination that carries the U.N. designation as a ...

Researchers warn that rising sea levels could cause flooding that will endanger the historically significant statues, which ...

Chile’s maritime geography includes 6,435 km of coastline, 4,300 km on the mainland and the remainder distributed along Chile’s Antarctic and Pacific Island territories.

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century.

Humboldt penguins nest only on several dozen coastal islands scattered along more than 1,000 miles (kilometers) of the Chilean and Peruvian coastline.

A group of Moai stone statues on Easter Island, Chile, August 2013. A group of Moai stone statues on Easter Island, Chile, August 2013. Gregory Boissy/Getty Tourists traveling to Easter Island in ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said ...

Here I am on this island many thousands of miles away, in pursuit of something that compels me to return over and over again, and to continue dreaming of a truly marvelous future art exhibition ...

A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.