Prehistoric Polynesian seafarers were highly skilled and undertook some of the longest and most technically demanding voyages ...

Inspired by Disney's Moana? Channel the Polynesian princess in Tahiti, where traditional vessels take visitors on cultural ...

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on ...

In so doing, they have provided realistic information on sailing over a number of legendary voyaging routes in Polynesia, which has served to greatly enhance the understanding of the discovery and ...

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.

The three-year voyage of the Hōkūleʻa, a giant Polynesian sailing canoe, helped spread indigenous knowledge and concern for Earth’s future around the globe. In the summer of 2017, after a three-year ...

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 ...

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 an ancient Polynesian design, with a slender hull nine metres (30ft ...

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 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 ...