On New Zealand’s Chatham Islands, the complete remains of a wooden boat, possibly used by Polynesians to reach the region, ...

Around 3,000 years ago, people from Southeast Asia began sailing out into the Pacific and settling on the islands of […] ...

The boat, known as a waka, was unearthed in the Chatham Islands. Researchers say it could be one of the most significant ...

The discovery was called by one archaeologist as something that will go down as one of the most important finds in Polynesian ...

In 1973, Ben Finney and a group of Polynesian specialists and canoe enthusiasts formed the Polynesian Voyaging Society to build a large voyaging canoe to attempt the Hawai'i - Tahiti round-trip in ...

Polynesian societies combined a strong authority structure based on genealogical ranking that was useful for mounting long expeditions and founding island colonies. The Voyaging Canoe View from ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On March 8, 1975, Hawaiʻi’s first long-distance Polynesian voyaging canoe in 600 years was born. On that historic day, many hands came together to launch the canoe ...

Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had simply lucked into finding the islands by drifting on logs. But a canoe launched half a century ago helped turn Hawaiian culture from a source of shame ...

and he remembers thinking he’d never see the boat again as he was evacuating Lahaina. For Gilliom, it was a devastating blow. Building Polynesian canoes is a laborious, painstaking and expensive ...