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Polynesian navigation

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 double-hulled canoes were two large hulls, equal in…

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Polynesian navigation

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related to External links · 26
Polynesian navigation → An, Archived, Based, CA, Dennis, English, Exploratorium, Flash, Hawaiian, HI, Honolulu, Kawaharada, Modern Methods, Never Lost, Non-Instrument Navigation, November, Pacific Traditions, Polynesian Voyaging Society, Retrieved, San Francisco
related to history · 21
Polynesian navigation → Abraham Fornander, According, Andrew Sharp, Asia, Atiu, Brosses's, By, Captain James Cook, Charles, Cook, Europeans, Knowledge, Late, Pacific, Percy Smith, Polynesia, Polynesian, Polynesians, South Seas, Tahitians
related to Bird observation · 17
Polynesian navigation → Certain, Cook Islands, Eudynamys, Gatty, Harold Gatty, Hawaiʻi, In The Raft Book, Navigators, New Zealand, Numenius, Pacific, Pluvialis, Polynesian, Tahiti, There, Tuamotus, World War II
related to Navigational techniques · 6
Polynesian navigation → Navigators, Once, Polynesian, The, Through, When

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the navigation by the starsinstance ofPolynesian navigators used wayfinding techniques0.80text
and observations of birdsinstance ofPolynesian navigators used wayfinding techniques0.80text
ocean swellsinstance ofPolynesian navigators used wayfinding techniques0.80text
and wind patternsinstance ofPolynesian navigators used wayfinding techniques0.80text
and relied on a large body of knowledge from oral traditioninstance ofPolynesian navigators used wayfinding techniques0.80text
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and Fiji for many years after its introduction to Western Polynesia but eventually died out in most of Polynesia due to the scarcity of clayinstance ofLapita pottery persisted in places0.80text
Taumata-Fe'e-Fa'atupu-Hauinstance ofIn oral tradition the octopus is known by various names0.80text
Hawaiiinstance ofsettled first followed by more remote regions0.80text
Easter Islandinstance ofsettled first followed by more remote regions0.80text
and New Zealand peopled laterinstance ofsettled first followed by more remote regions0.80text

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