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Why are New Zealand’s Maori protesting over colonial-era treaty bill?
The Maori came to the uninhabited islands of New Zealand from East Polynesia on canoe voyages in the 1300s. Over hundreds of ...
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Why Scientists Are Excited About A Canoe Found On This Beach
Perhaps the most significant find in Polynesian archaeological history has been discovered in the Chatham Islands.
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Hokule'a, the recreated Polynesian sea-faring canoe. (Photo courtesy of the Polynesian Voyaging Society.)
This voyage served to turn the tide against ... but it has inspired Tahitians and New Zealand Maori to reconstruct their own voyaging canoes and sail them over legendary sea routes.
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Wayfinders : Polynesian History and Origin
The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into ... and then to thousands of miles in the case of voyages to the far corners of the ...
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A Fisherman and His Son Noticed Strange Pieces of Wood on a Beach. They Turned Out to Be Fragments of a Polynesian Canoe
These ancient sailors navigated by the stars, traversing the ocean in large canoes carved from trees ... in Polynesia or in Aotearoa [the Maori name for New Zealand]—you find very small ...