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, ...

These ancient sailors navigated by the stars, traversing the ocean in large canoes carved from trees. Now, one of those boats ... us learn so much more about Polynesian waka technology.” ...

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 ...

(James Kimo Hugho via AP) Nainoa Thompson, master navigator and CEO of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, discusses navigation techniques while on board the Hokulea canoe as it is moored in Honolulu ...