Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in Chile is the Polynesian island also called Rapa Nui?

Rapa Nui National Park is the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Polynesian island also called Easter Island or Rapa Nui.

The remote island is famous for moai, monumental human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people between roughly the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The statues were placed on ceremonial platforms called ahu, often facing inland toward communities rather than out to sea. Their scale and transport have made them a major subject of archaeological research.

The park includes quarry sites such as Rano Raraku, where many moai were carved, along with ceremonial platforms, villages, caves, and other archaeological remains. Rapa Nui culture developed in relative isolation across the southeastern Pacific, producing distinctive religious, social, and artistic traditions.

UNESCO inscribed Rapa Nui National Park in 1995. A common misconception is that every moai stood upright at the quarry or that their purpose is fully mysterious; archaeological evidence connects them to ancestral and chiefly traditions, while many were later toppled during periods of social upheaval.