Within Chilean territory, Easter Island is located in one of the most isolated places in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and can only be reached by plane—2,200 miles west of Chile. But though it is ...

The huge stone heads, some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces—or why, or how, or when.

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter Island Head, who speak to Patrick Clarke about ...

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 ...