For thousands of years, celestial navigation was only practiced by men in Polynesia. Now women are reclaiming traditions that are rightly theirs. © 2017 POLYNESIAN VOXAGIN ...

Andrew Sharp here comments on the papers published last year in "Polynesian Navigation: A Symposium on Andrew Sharp's Theory of Accidental Voyages", edited by Jack Golson (Polynesian Society Memoir No ...

Polynesian cultures have a remarkable navigational tradition. It stands as a testament to human ingenuity and an intimate understanding of nature. Where Western cultures developed maps and tools to ...

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Polynesian Wayfinding at SRJC: Starting Friday, June 20, the Santa Rosa Junior College Planetarium features the world's greatest navigators, the Polynesians, who traveled the Pacific for thousands of ...

(KRON) — A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe has made its way into the Bay Area. On Friday night, the legendary Hokule’a Canoe docked in Sausalito. The double-hulled canoe is well known for ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This article contains minor spoilers. One of the ...

If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, you may have noticed how small these land masses appear against the vast Pacific Ocean.