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Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean. Polynesians made contact with nearly every island within the vast Polynesian Triangle , using outrigger canoes or double-hulled canoes.
The Polynesian Voyaging Society recognized Mau's contributions in preserving the art of wayfinding by building and donating the voyaging canoe Alingano Maisu to Mau and the people of Satawal, and he is honored with his name carved into the rail aboard Hōkūleʻa behind his traditional seat on the port rear quarter of the vessel.
We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific is a 1972 book by the British-born New Zealand doctor David Lewis, which explains the principles of Micronesian and Polynesian navigation through his experience of placing his boat under control of several traditional navigators on long ocean voyages.
Polynesian (Hawaiian) navigators sailing multi-hulled canoe, c. 1781 A common fishing canoe va'a with outrigger in Savaiʻi island, Samoa, 2009. These wayfinding techniques, along with outrigger canoe construction methods, were kept as guild secrets. Generally, each island maintained a guild of navigators who had very high status; in times of ...
The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. PVS was established to research and perpetuate traditional Polynesian voyaging methods. Using replicas of traditional double-hulled canoes, PVS undertakes voyages throughout Polynesia navigating without modern instruments.
Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANPHI) audiences are finding much to rejoice about in Disney’s latest animated feature “Moana 2.” Little details such as Moana’s conch ...
The Polynesian Voyaging Society presented Piailug a double-hulled canoe, the Alingano Maisu, as a gift for his key role in reviving traditional wayfinding navigation in Hawaii. Then in March 2008, Piailug presided the Pwo ceremony for the Māori navigator Hekenukumai Nga Iwi Busby .
Auliʻi Cravalho, the star of Disney’s 2016 animated hit Moana and its new sequel (in theaters Nov. 27), is “so grateful to come back” to her wayfinding chieftess, she tells PEOPLE. “This ...