There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... South America's mainland, it is one of the Earth's most isolated inhabited islands, a tiny dot in the middle of the southwestern Pacific ...

Courtesy of Flickr user Arian Zwegers. Easter Island, Ahu Tongariki Courtesy of Flickr user Arian Zwegers. About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island.

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island arrive? It is the most remote ... Unlike later visitors to the South Pacific, Cook understood that Polynesian navigators could guide canoes across ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island ... people from South America could have colonized the Pacific?