Polynesian wayfinding has long been ... She was perched atop a two-hulled canoe called Hōkūle’a in the Pacific Ocean, not far from the Big Island of Hawaii where her crew had just set sail.

Where Western cultures developed maps and tools ... the breadth of the Pacific. The area of Polynesia is roughly defined as a triangle bounded by Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand.

New research shows that the expansion of the tropics and associated changes in Pacific Ocean wind patterns facilitated the Polynesian migration to the far eastern and southern ends of the Pacific ...

By 1500 B.C., these voyagers began moving east beyond ... gaps between islands grew from tens of miles at the edge of the western Pacific to hundreds of miles along the way to Polynesia, and ...

Explore volcanic landscapes or lounge on white sand beaches at an under-the-radar Polynesian island nation perfect for a pristine tropical vacation.

Through swift eastward migrations that are now well covered by archaeological research, Polynesian societies settled virtually every island from Samoa and Tonga to Rapa Nui/Easter Island in the east .

The Polynesian Triangle includes more than a thousand individual islands in the South Pacific ... (This woman sailed the Pacific without maps, reviving a Polynesian tradition.) ...

The Marquesas are a beautiful, remote stretch of islands in the South Pacific ... a map, look about 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) southeast of Hawaii and 4,700 kilometers (2,920 miles) east ...