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

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

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

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

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 ...