Easter Island

Explore Easter Island, one of the most enigmatic places on earth, an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Located over two thousand miles off the west coast of Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean, this mysterious island has a visual impact few places in the world can equal. Hundreds of moai, tight lipped basalt statues unique in the whole of Oceania, are scattered throughout the island. How did the huge basalt statuary come to be erected on this remote Easter Island? And for what audience and purpose were they created?