Gazing across the sea for days on end Polynesian navigators often didn’t look for land, which was hundreds of miles away in any direction. Instead, they watched the stars, clouds, birds, waves and ...
A genetic study has helped shine a light on how the Polynesian islands of the central and southern Pacific – some of which are thousands of kilometres apart – were populated over the past thousand ...
Relief shown by landforms and spot heights. Cover art by Nanci Hersh. Indexed on verso. 52 insets on recto and verso. siris_sil_479255 ...
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Tahiti's highway to heaven is a two-lane road
By Athena Lucero Views from the passenger seat of an SUV transported me to a world far from the traffic and concrete of Los Angeles. On an extraordinary road tour around Tahiti's coastline, it was ...
A glance at a globe or world map will show you that French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands are a long way from Tahiti and the other Society Islands—and a long way from anywhere else, for that matte ...
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