Tag: Easter Island

• Monday, June 20th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Norwegian Kon-Tiki expedition ‘partly right’ about Easter Island-Bolivia links

  

  A new study has found that a Norwegian, who undertook a Kon-Tiki expedition to prove that Polynesians had South American roots, was partly right about his theory.
  In 1947, late Thor Heyerdahl controversially claimed that Easter Island's famous statues were similar to those at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.

• Monday, June 6th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Easter Island opens Visitor Centre as part of intensive conservation program

  

  Chile’s Easter Island opened the doors to its new sustainable visitor centre on May 13. The centre is located at the entrance to the Orongo Ceremonial Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site in a Rapa Nui National Park.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  US Congressman to assess Easter Island conflict between Rapa Nui natives and Chile

  

  The United States congressman representing the territory of American Samoa has announced he will be traveling to Easter Island during the Congressional recess to assess recent developments between the legitimate representatives of the Rapa Nui clans and the Chilean government.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 14:10 UTC

  Difficult Times for Chile’s Easter Island

  

  by COHA Research Associates Joss Douglas and Samantha Nadler
  Famous for its monolithic Moai head stones that were mysteriously erected at the dawn of history, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Easter Island is today making headlines of a different sort.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 23:20 UTC

  Easter Island Rapa Niu peoples’ land claims’ turns international

  

  The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a body within the Organization of American States, has issued Precautionary Measures to protect the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 07:49 UTC

  U.N. Urges Chile to Halt Evictions of Indigenous Protesters

  

  Following months of protests and sit-ins surrounding ancestral land claims on Chile’s Easter Island, the United Nations has officially called on the Chilean government to help diffuse tensions.

• Friday, January 7th 2011 - 19:36 UTC

  LAN launched a new flight between Easter Island and Lima

  

  The first flight of the new route from Lima to Easter Island’s Mataveri airport landed safely this week, making Easter Island a more accessible tourist destination.

• Monday, January 3rd 2011 - 20:17 UTC

  Chile: Police continue evictions of occupied land on Easter Islands

  

  More than 100 Police Special Forces violently evicted Rapa Nui indigenous groups from the Government Plaza in the center of Hanga Roa over the holidays, causing injuries to at least nine people, three of them serious.

• Saturday, December 18th 2010 - 13:24 UTC

  Mapuche friendly cardinal named Archbishop of Santiago de Chile

  

  The former archbishop of Concepción, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, has been named as the new archbishop of Chile’s capital Santiago. He will replace cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 02:59 UTC

  Indigenous group protests blamed for dip in tourism on Chile’s Easter Islands

  

  Due to the on-going land disputes by indigenous Rapa Nui groups, tourism activity has decreased on Chile’s Easter Island, said Edgar Hereveri, vice president of the island’s chamber of tourism.