24 Oct 2025
Summer, on the first leg of its worldwide voyage. When the Hōkūleʻa visits, Tahitians say, “Maeva, a hoi mai”, meaning “Welcome home.” There is a well-documented tradition of voyaging between the two island groups (Tahiti and Hawaii) and it is clear that in the 13th...
22 Oct 2025
Researchers from 3 universities employed computer simulations and climatic data to help them explore the travels that led to the settlement of islands in Remote Oceania UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE, Oregon. — Oct. 28, 2016 The colonization of far-flung Remote...
17 Oct 2025
SAILING AGAINST PREVAILING WINDS, SPOTTING BIG ISLANDS April 22, 2015 – Using statistics that describe how an infectious disease spreads, a University of Utah anthropologist analyzed different theories of how people first settled islands of the vast Pacific between...
13 Oct 2025
Nine species of moa disappeared from New Zealand in the wake of human arrival. With them went the giant Haast’s eagle and dozens of smaller bird species including adzebills, endemic geese, mergansers, harriers, teal, snipe and rails. The landscape and ecology of this...
8 Oct 2025
Kay Leather, Hauiti Te Puru Wayfinding involves interpreting simple things like wave movements; cloud formations; star positions; birds flying to and from islands; migratory birds and migratory marine animals; distinct fish populations; different salinity in different...
8 Oct 2025
The books below offer extended learning around the subjects of Maori starlore, astronomy and more: Tatai Arorangi: Maori Astronomy Work of the Gods, by Kay Leather and Richard Hall The Zodiac: Myths and Legends of the Stars by Richard Hall How to Gaze at the Southern...
