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 eve
Hōkūleʻa, A fibreglass hulled replica of a Hawaiian double-hulled canoe sailing off Honolulu, 2009
Hawaiian navigators sailing multi-hulled canoe, c. 1781
Marumaru Atua in Rarotonga, 2010.
Micronesian navigation techniques are those navigation skills used for thousands of years by the navigators who voyaged between the thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean in the subre
A navigational chart from the Marshall Islands, made of wood, sennit fiber and cowrie shells
Stick chart in Überseemuseum Bremen