Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean is famous for its instantly recognisable statues known as the moai. And while the monuments draw tens of thousands of visitors a year to one of the world’s remotest inhabited territories, the island is likely to see another influx of visitors next month when an annular solar eclipse passes overhead. The October 2 Pacific eclipse follows the total eclipse that crossed North America earlier this year. But unlike the blacked-out darkness of a total eclipse, an annular version has a halo of sun visible around the moon’s shadow. The effect means an annular eclipse…