Arcturus was known as a guiding sign to Hawaii, and termed Hōkūleʻa by Polynesian navigators of yore. Those that left Tahiti by boat could simply sail to the east and north until Hōkūleʻa ...

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on the ancient Polynesian design, with a 9m-long slender hull ...

Sails made of matting drove this ancient forerunner of the modern catamaran swiftly through the seas, and long steering paddles enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course.

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on the ancient Polynesian design, with a nine-metre-long slender hull ...

which sail using the same principle as a modern catamaran: swift and stable,” Ioannidis added. This contact explains the mystery of how the sweet potato arrived in Polynesia centuries before ...

Once people reached western Polynesia, their explorations stalled ... Eventually they learned to sail against the wind, which allowed them to continue eastward. “Going farther, to remote Oceania ...

the Polynesian Voyaging Society announced Tuesday. About 400 crew members will sail an estimated 43,000 nautical miles around the Pacific, visiting 36 countries and archipelagoes, nearly 100 ...

Did they sail from the east, from South American soil, or from Central Polynesia to the north and west? It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have ...

Thousands of years before Norse sailors landed in Newfoundland or Columbus set sail in search of the northwest passage, Polynesian navigators were exploring the vast open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

The canoe will stop at Olowalu this morning to celebrate the designation of the reef as a “Mission Blue Hope Spot” before sailing into Honolua Bay at 4 p.m. • Polynesian Voyaging Society ...