James MacDonald,JSTOR Daily[br]Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, and is as remote as it gets. Located almost in the middle of the South Pacific,Rapa Nui is famous for the huge stone heads, or moai, and its inhabitants once built. The society that built the mighty moai is long gone,and the island is nowadays a province of Chile. What happened there? Why did their society vanish? It has been a common assumption that the Rapa Nui's inhabitants degraded their ecosystem to the point that the island could no longer support them. But an increasing body of evidence suggests that there's more to the account.
Source: realclearscience.com