Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

Perhaps the most significant find in Polynesian archaeological history has been discovered in the Chatham Islands.

Waterways Ireland advises masters of vessels that the winter mooring period on the Shannon Navigation and Shannon-Erne ...

Bates/Grist) The United Nations body in charge of overseeing mineral extraction from the international seafloor, known as the ...

Timi Gilliom, captain and builder of the voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha o Pi‘ilani, awoke from a midday nap in Hui O Wa’a Kaulua’s ...

Raffipiy was class president that year. For Satawalese, voyaging is a way of life and key to the island's survival. Navigators sail canoes to fish, which is their food staple. They also voyage to stay ...

But a canoe launched half a century ago helped turn Hawaiian culture from a source of shame to one of pride, reviving the ...

Artist Herb Kane began painting ancient canoes based on drawings from European explorers and got the idea to build a double-hulled canoe with tall, triangular sails similar to those his ancestors ...

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would even influence the Disney blockbuster “Moana” decades later.