Geologically speaking, Easter Island, which lies some 2,200 miles off the coast of Chile, is something of ... with the same composition as the "young" volcanoes. At the same time, however, these ...

Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago. It has three crater lakes but no streams; fresh water is scarce. Chile, the island’s source of fuel and most food ...

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet officially created a 740,000-square kilometer marine reserve around remote Easter Island ... the Rapa Nui,” Marcelo Mena, Chile's environment minister ...

An earthquake measuring 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale struck Chile's Easter Islands in the South ... among the almost 6,000 inhabitants of the island, which belongs to Chile despite being ...

The Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges are deep-sea mountain ranges with multiple volcanoes that extend ... the range spanning from Chile to Rapa Nui (‘Easter Island’) as well as two existing ...