Sails made of matting drove this ancient forerunner of the modern catamaran swiftly through the seas, and long steering paddles enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course.
A California federal jury said on Monday that Disney's hit film "Moana" did not infringe an artist's copyrights related to ...
Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hōkūleʻa is turning 50 years old this Saturday. On March 8, 1975, Hawai’i’s first long-distance voyaging canoe in 600 years was born.
The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native Americans before Europeans arrived, despite ...
If true, ocean voyages around the Philippines and ISEA could predate even some ancient Polynesian trips. Despite never directly connecting to mainland Asia through land bridges or ice sheets ...
Both "Bucky," the story of a teenage boy from New Mexico who moves to Hawaii after his father's death, and "Moana," the tale of the daughter of a local chief set in ancient Polynesia, are essentially ...