This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...
He brought 5,600 objects back from Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... Four of them spent the night at the Oslo museum, alongside the remains as part of a ritual ceremony to take back ...
Some cruise lines, including MSC, Seabourn and Holland America also have itineraries with Easter Island stops. Rapa Nui National Park covers half of the island, and feels like an "open-air museum ...
Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter ... the night at the Oslo museum ...