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.

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 ...

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

In the 1950s, a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist named Thor Heyerdahl took artifacts and human remains from Easter ...