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Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island
The Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo announced on Wednesday that it is returning archaeological pieces and human remains taken by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 to Easter Island, also known as ...
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Giant stone heads, UFOs on Easter Island, one of the world’s most remote inhabited places
My four-night stay at the all-inclusive Explora Rapa Nui lodge, 6.5km northeast of Hanga Roa, includes a sea-view room, meals full of fresh vegetables - more than I would have expected to be ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...
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If They Could Only Talk
On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki ... He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve ...
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Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...