A North American Air Force base installed on Easter Island in the 1960s was part of a project of espionage on the Soviet Union from space. The journalist Patricia Stambuk clarifies all doubts with recently declassified documents from Washington: “Rapa Nui formed part of the larger scenario of the Cold
Honui The Rapanui Families Organize 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the government of Chile establishing civil administration on Rapa Nui, after leasing it for 47 years to a British multi-national livestock firm, followed by 13 years under the administration and jurisdiction of the Chilean Navy. This decision was taken
Island Entrepreneurs purify the Water In the past, Easter Islanders got their drinking water from the craters of the extinct volcanoes Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, as well as from the many subterranean caves that, even to the present day, hold an abundance of fresh water. Rainwater filters
Teatro a Mil 2017 in Rapa Nui This coming year, the international theater festival “Santiago a Mil” will also include Easter Island. The artistic event, held every year in the month of January, will not only take over the streets, theaters and other public spaces of the capital city, but
A Choir for Rapa Nui Last December, the newly-formed Choir of Isla de Pascua offered its first presentations in the parish church and in the Hotel Hanga Roa. They sang some Christmas carols, songs from “The Sound of Music” and “The Wizard of Oz”, two Polynesian songs which had been
Ubud, Bali 2016 International Conference Early Pacific Migration Scientists from Australia, New Zealand, Russia, USA, Germany, Cook Islands and Rapa Nui, who have for many years been studying the migrations of the Polynesian ancestors across the Pacific Ocean, met between the 6th and the 10th of last November at Villa
Total Lunar Eclipse on Rapa Nui On January 31, at 5:51 a.m., local time, Easter Island will witness the beginning of a total eclipse of a so-called blue moon. Totality will be reached at 8:30 in the morning, when the shadow of the earth completely covers the moon. This phenomenon
Climate Changes on Rapa Nui Effects on animal life in the Eastern Pacific Ocean: El aumento de las lluvias relacionado con El Niño aumenta la turbidez del agua y disminuye su salinidad, influyendo en los procesos de fotosintesis submarina. Ello afecta la relacion natural entre los peces y su medio
Plastic contaminates the coast of Rapa Nui Every year millions of tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans. The largest part of this rubbish ends up floating in the so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, contaminating the marine life. Rapu Nui receives the rubbish from the South Pacific Gyre. Last
There has been a lot of speculation on the problems of water supply in the fresh water on Rapa Nui in remote past. “The Island has no rivers, creeks or valleys which wash its countryside nor water sources which refresh the thirsty,” wrote Father Sebastian Englert in his book “The
