Where Western cultures developed maps and tools to plot courses ... Those that Credit: public domain The Polynesian people, inhabiting the islands in the Pacific Ocean, embarked on epic voyages ...

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As the 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 then to thousands of miles in the case of voyages to the ...