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SANTIAGO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Chile's Easter Island received its first group of tourists on Thursday after closing its borders for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Easter Island, ...

This video shows the famous Moai statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, one of the most isolated inhabited islands in ...

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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. The ...

A wildfire began on Tuesday and swept through more than 148.26 acres. Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage ...

A fire, from a human or volcano, on Easter Island, Chile, caused irreparable damage to the Moai statues, or Easter Island heads, mayor says. Photo from the Municipalidad de Rapa Nui A fire on Easter ...

RAPA NUI, Chile (AP) — The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved ...

A wild horse trots alongside me while a giant stone moai, carved centuries ago, lies face-down in the fudge-textured earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A tourist looks at a statue named "Moai" at Easter Island SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Easter Island, one of Chile's biggest ...

Fire swept through part of the national park on Chile’s Easter Island this week and damaged some of the famous moai statues built by the indigenous Polynesian people. The most affected area of the ...

SANTIAGO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A number of Easter Island's iconic 'Moai' stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week, the island's mayor told ...