SAN FRANCISCO-- Half a dozen canoes from islands of the South Pacific landed on the beach at Aquatic Park today as part of a weeklong visit to San Francisco - the first stop on the coast of what ...

Weather conditions weren’t ideal for the crews of Hokule’a and Hikianalia to depart Hilo Monday, however crew leaders say ...

and over 27 Pacific island countries will participate. On Saturday, the Cook Islands voyaging canoe Marumaru Atua arrived at Sand Island. “It’s always been a big thing to celebrate our culture.

It’s the Hoki Mai Challenge, which started Saturday in Rapa Nui, a territory in the Pacific that is part of Chile and is better known as Easter Island. The event consists of a canoe voyage in ...

A replica of an ancient Polynesian canoe ... journey around the Pacific Ocean. They'll be making stops as it heads to South America before launching off into the Pacific islands and reaching ...

An international team of researchers has used geochemical fingerprinting to reconstruct long-distance voyages between central and western Pacific Islands during the last millennium A.D. Polynesian ...

They visualize the angle between their canoe, pictured as stationary, and a reference island that is off to one side and represented as moving. Western researchers have speculated on how etak works, ...

The geochemical investigation of stone artefacts from the Polynesian Outliers also provides critical information on inter-island transfers between the Polynesians and their neighbours in the western ...