What makes this finding so significant is that it confirms what some archaeologists and anthropologists have suspected for ...

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DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...

Nasa makes discovery ‘as important as gravity’ about Earth ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...

Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...

Previous archaeological research had shown that Rapa Nui was first settled by Polynesian people around the year 1250 CE. Over the next five centuries, the descendents of those people developed ...

WAILUKU—More than 300 of local keiki gathered throughout Hanaka‘ō‘ō Park in West Maui on Wednesday, Sept. 18, where they ...

A small ship cruise line is expanding cruises in the South Pacific in 2026 with new sailings that range from seven to 15 days ...

The island vibes and reggae rhythms hit all the right notes as crowds gathered at Heart Health Park in Cal Expo.

Swap out a trip to Hawaii for the French Polynesian island of Mo'orea. "Hawaii gets so much hype, and I think Hawaii's beautiful, don't get me wrong. I know how much people love Maui," Cannon told BI.