A MILITARY plane carrying riot police reinforcements landed on Easter Island, and Chile’s Interior Minister said they will continue evicting Rapa Nui islanders who have been squatting in government buildings built on their ancestral properties.

A military plane carrying riot police reinforcements landed on Easter Island, and Chile’s Interior Minister said they will continue evicting Rapa Nui islanders who have been squatting in government buildings built on their ancestral properties.

French scientists say they have hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.

THE British are the biggest loners, the Chinese the least religious and the French the most ripe for romance.

A tourist who chipped an earlobe off an ancient Moai statue on Easter Island has been allowed to go home after paying a €10,600 fine and agreeing not to return for three years.

A man has been charged with stealing three endangered iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji and smuggling them into the US in his prosthetic leg.

A light aircraft crashed into the sea after taking off from the French Polynesian island of Moorea, killing at least 14 people.

A British sailor whose yacht was beached on a reef off a remote South Pacific island was lifted to safety today by an Australian navy helicopter, maritime officials said.

Fiji was facing the prospect of suspension from the Commonwealth today after a military coup was staged in the South Pacific island.

At least one person died when Cyclone Ivy tore through Vanuatu last week, causing ”moderate to severe damage” in the South Pacific Island chain, senior Australian and New Zealand officials said today.

The worst cyclone in living memory has smashed into the tiny South Pacific island state of Niue, killing a woman and seriously injuring several people including her baby.

One of two tiny South Pacific islands cut off from the world for days by a massive cyclone has been left devastated, according to reports.

One of two tiny South Pacific islands cut off from the world for days by a massive cyclone has been left devastated, a New Zealand cameraman said after flying over it today.