However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most often remembered today. Similar to Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas, Roggeveen stumbled upon Easter Island by ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture. The moai were ...

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 ...

What’s 63 square miles in size, 1,200 miles from the nearest landmass and home to over 900 monoliths that line its coast? Easter Island — also called Isla de Pascua and Rapa Nui — is famed worldwide ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

At the beginning of Sonic 3, Shadow is shown being held captive at 'Prison Island' in Tokyo. That's not an imaginatively ... One of the more on-the-nose Easter eggs is Knuckles and Tails interaction ...

One creative Minecraft player brings a part of the world of Bikini Bottom to the game by building a replica of SpongeBob’s ...

The New Year is upon us; onward we go. New Year’s resolutions are never a bad idea, even if they are promptly broken. These ...

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Cenntenial Park, on Hovey Road off Wallace Drive. Jan. 4-5 and Jan. 11-12, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The rest of the time the ...

At one time, Inspiration Point provided a spectacular viewpoint over Quartermaster Harbor. With a sweeping view of sunrises and sunsets on Mount Rainier framed behind Maury Island, it was a gathering ...