canoes
Tupaia, the Peacemaker
Gerard Hindmarsh traveled from New Zealand to the Society Islands last week to pursue his obsessive investigation of the sea-faring traditions of the Tahitian people. The author of an article early last year about Polynesian oceanic travel 800 years ago updated his findings with another report on May 5. A highlight of his recent trip […]
Seafaring Canoes Tied Polynesians Together
Scholars have found evidence that about 800 years ago people used large, seafaring canoes to travel between the Society Islands and New Zealand, a distance of nearly 3,000 miles. A report in a New Zealand newspaper last week explained why experts consider the long-distance travels of the Tahitians, and other Polynesians, back and forth over […]
Ifaluk Canoe Building Fosters International Friendship
Three canoe-builders from Ifaluk Island, in the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, are teaching canoe-building skills and helping forge an international community in the process. The Honolulu Advertiser reported on August 21 that three people from Ifaluk (or Ifalik as it is called in the story) have joined five others from New Zealand […]
