‘We know the way’: How Polynesian voyagers navigate Earth’s biggest ocean

Share For the wayfinders and navigators that practice Polynesian voyaging, the clues of where to go are all around the big blue and beyond. Once you can see them, it’s all about working with–not against–the elements, as Disney’s Moana showed to audiences in 2016.     Polynesian Voyaging Society Program Director and Captain Lehua Kamalu felt right at home when she first climbed aboard Hōkūleʻa. This authentic replica of an ancient Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe was built in the 1970s and has since voyaged thousands of nautical miles.  “I really just fell…

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