Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific...

amah, and is more than seven feet across and weighs 850 pounds." Polynesian navigation Bangka (boat) Waka (canoe) Outrigger canoe Hōkūleʻa Beheim, B. A...

wanted to show that ancient Polynesians could have purposely settled the Polynesian Triangle using non-instrument navigation. The first PVS project was...

To this day, original traditional methods of Polynesian Navigation are still taught in the Polynesian outlier of Taumako Island in the Solomon Islands...

with the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS). With Mau's help, PVS used experimental archaeology to recreate and test lost Hawaiian navigational techniques...

David Lewis and Marianne (Mimi) George identified that traditional Polynesian navigational techniques were still preserved in these islands. The people of...

"ship" and the root of agere "to drive". Polynesian navigation is probably the earliest form of open-ocean navigation; it was based on memory and observation...

Micronesian origin for a distinctive cognitive and mnemonic approach to oceanic navigation and orientation involving a notional reference point or "island", called...

"something that flashes". It was used by historic and modern Polynesians as a navigation aid to find islands in the Pacific Ocean. In some instances,...

being Polynesian in origin. In contrast to the shape of a triangle, another theory states that the geography of Polynesian society and navigation pathways...

groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins...

and Pacific oceans, the oceanic navigations made it possible to populate all the archipelagoes (Polynesian navigation). However, the possibility of reaching...

doctor David Lewis, which explains the principles of Micronesian and Polynesian navigation through his experience of placing his boat under control of several...

are named for a constellation or star used by the ancient Polynesians for celestial navigation when making their voyages across the Pacific to Hawaii, the...

2006, when it was supplanted by a canoe built in Newport, Maine. Polynesian navigation Hokule'a, Hawaiian double-hulled ship and voyages. Tahana, Yvonne...

These navigation techniques continued to be held by Polynesian navigators and navigators from the Santa Cruz Islands. The re-creations of Polynesian voyaging...

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contact with the Pacific islands, Polynesians frequently voyaged by canoe between the islands. Polynesian navigation skills enabled them to make elaborately...

pride in the Hawaiian and Polynesian culture", leading to "a renaissance of voyaging, canoe building, and non-instrument navigation that has continued to...

adventurer, doctor, and scholar of Polynesian culture. He is best known for his studies on the traditional systems of navigation used by the Pacific Islanders...

Fa’afaite-Tahiti Voyaging Society and used to teach used to teach polynesian navigation. Faʻafaite is one of eight vaka moana built for the Okeanos Foundation...

Satellite navigation History of longitude List of proper names of stars List of selected stars for navigation Polar alignment Polynesian navigation Radio...

with two tails" location in Pacific and Polynesian mythology, recorded in the traditional celestial navigation techniques of the Caroline Islands. Part...

the history and the social and cultural anthropology of surfing, Polynesian navigation, and canoe sailing, as well as in the cultural and social anthropology...

tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga and Nēpia Pōhūhū". List of Māori waka Polynesian navigation Whakapapa According to K.R. Howe, "Kupe was not a well-known figure...

illiterate crew members to collect the data needed for dead reckoning. Polynesian navigation, however, uses different wayfinding techniques. On 14 June, 1919...

The Polynesian Navigation Company (Société de Navigation Polynesiènne) (SNP) is a shipping company in French Polynesia which operates routes between Tahiti...

possibly South America. Polynesian navigators used a range of tools and methods, including observation of birds, star navigation, and use of waves and swells...

between Vancouver and Juneau. Hawaiki Hawaiian religion Hōkūleʻa Polynesian navigation Polynesian Voyaging Society Samuel M. Kamakau and Z. Kepelino: Hawai‘iloa...

a western origin for Polynesians, from Island Southeast Asia, using sophisticated multihull sailing technologies and navigation techniques during the...