It’s extraordinary.” The scholars think that the Auckland Islands, some 300 miles south of New Zealand, mark the furthest south that the Polynesians ever reached. They do not believe ...

Because no Polynesians knew how to navigate in the ancient manner, Mau Piailug, a traditional navigator from the Caroline Islands of Micronesia, was chosen to guide the canoe. His method of ...

One hypothesis suggests that Polynesians could have traveled to the western coast of South America, then made their way east to southern Brazil. However, the group would have had to cross the Andes, ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

Through a multi-disciplinary effort, recently enhanced by the contributions of modern Polynesians eager to experience their past, a picture is emerging of the development of a seafaring culture ...

Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the southern Pacific Ocean, the Polynesians, were without question the greatest open ocean voyagers in the history of ...