Compiled by The Hull Times staff JANUARY Sally Snowman retired as the first and last female keeper of Boston Light and as the ...

Researchers believe the giant moai statues on Easter Island were “walked” into place using their own immense weight as ...

Advice for capturing the magical moai, dramatic coastlines and stunning night skies above the world’s most remote island ...

Mallorca has just revealed a new three-word slogan that could leave many British tourists feeling a little less welcome. The island, long a favourite for Brits seeking sun, sea, and sangria ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

Jonas Safari, 21, was enjoying an afternoon with family and friends at Canberra's Pine Island on Sunday when he dived into Murrumbidgee River. Despite the calm conditions, he experienced trouble ...

In September, a unique chase took place in the skies above Easter Island. From a rented jet, a team of researchers captured a satellite’s last moments as it fell out of space and blazed into ash ...

They’ve shown up at City Council meetings, met with city leaders, written letters to local newspapers, circulated a petition seeking to keep Awaken off the island and created a dedicated ...

The numbers counted off represent the stretches of miles the men have been made to march (“Four-eleven-seventeen-thirty-two-the day before…”) and Kipling snuck in the Easter egg of timing ...

Shoppers have complained after seeing Easter eggs already out on supermarket shelves. Easter Sunday is four months away, falling on 20 April next year, but chocolate eggs and hot cross buns have ...