Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

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Easter Island, known in the indigenous language as Rapa Nui, is a remote volcanic island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and a special territory of Chile, lying roughly 3,700 kilometres from the Chilean mainland. It is world-famous for its nearly 1,000 monumental stone statues called moai, carved by the Rapa Nui people between the 13th and 16th centuries and scattered across the island at ceremonial platforms known as ahu. Beyond archaeology, the island draws travellers for its dramatic coastal scenery, snorkelling and diving in exceptionally clear waters, hiking to volcanic craters like Rano Kau and Terevaka, and a deeply unique Polynesian culture preserved far from any other inhabited land. Its extraordinary isolation — it is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth — gives it an atmosphere found nowhere else.