Like the volcanoes found on Hawaii and Iceland, those on Easter Island are driven by an underlying "hotspot," a plume where molten material rises through the mantle like paraffin wax floating up a ...

Voyaging canoes moved southward, northward and southeast to ultimately inhabit Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand, all in the short period of about 400 years. When Europeans first explored the ...

French Polynesia is just as dreamy as it gets, and one of its largest islands is pretty much the dictionary definition of the ...

By sailing from Hawaii to Tahiti, Hokule'a's team was ... and now several teams are attempting to be the first to reach Easter Island, using ancient navigational techniques. No one has navigated ...