Multi-hulled canoes were used by Polynesian seafarers to cross great distances. Credit: Public domain Animals could be a great navigational aid, too. Pigs, with their keen sense of smell ...

Once they had reached the mid-ocean archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, these seafarers - the immediate ... of the area we know today as the Polynesian Triangle. When the Southeast Asian ...

Settled by Polynesian seafarers 800 years ago, Rapa Nui, today part of Chile, has hundreds of monumental stone heads that ...

Polynesians are renowned seafarers, and their island empire stretched ... the sailing and navigation skills of the Polynesians. Yet, Polynesian seafaring culture was in decline and plunged ...