The wind is mild, grass lush, sky grey. This is Chile’s Easter Island – but it could be the west coast of Ireland, except for these strange green conical volcanoes, hundreds of metres high.

A long-held theory that a dramatic population collapse occurred at some point on the southeast Pacific Ocean’s Easter Island ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

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 ...