Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island

Laura Tarita Rapu Alarcon is seen on the occasion of the return of remains from the Kon-Tiki Museum to Easter Island, in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 12, 2024. (Lise Aserud/NTB/via Reuters)

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific, the Kon-Tiki Museum said Wednesday.