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

Multi-hulled canoes were used by Polynesian seafarers to cross great distances. Credit: Public domain Animals could be a great navigational aid, too. Pigs, with their keen sense of smell ...

Once they had reached the mid-ocean archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, these seafarers - the immediate ... of the area we know today as the Polynesian Triangle. When the Southeast Asian ...

Polynesians are renowned seafarers, and their island empire stretched from Hawaii to New Zealand and Easter Island. Although ...

Settled by Polynesian seafarers 800 years ago, Rapa Nui, today part of Chile, has hundreds of monumental stone heads that ...