Anakena is a white coral sand beach in Rapa Nui National Park on Rapa Nui, a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean. Anakena has two ahus; Ahu-Ature has a single moai and Ahu Nao-Nao has seven, two of wh
Ahu Ature on Anakena Beach.
Easter Island from space with Anakena bottom left, its sandy beach and turquoise shallows almost the only gap in the island's surf. Rano Kau is at top with Hanga Roa just below it and Terevaka prominent above Anakena. A west up photo from NASA.
Panorama of Anakena beach, Easter Island
Katherine Maria Routledge was an English archaeologist and anthropologist who, in 1914, initiated and carried out much of the first true survey of Easter Island.
The Mana at Easter Island, 1914.
The excavated Ahu Tongariki, 1914. At the time, all moai were still overturned and there were no palm trees on the island.