My name is Tikoidelaimakotu Tuimoce Fuluna. My name tells you who I am and where I am from. I come from a small country, Fiji, in the middle of the world's greatest ocean, the Pacific. I live in a ...

(WHTM) — It’s been said exploration is curiosity put into action. It was that very curiosity and ingenuity that brought the first Polynesians to hawaiʻI on canoes that ultimately disappeared. Fast ...

2007-05-24 04:00:00 PDT Wailea, Hawaii-- So this is how the native Hawaiians did it. Thousands of years ago, when a band of Polynesian explorers discovered these lush and tropical islands, they did so ...

The Micronesian community in Milan is learning about its heritage as well as connecting with the Dakota communities at the Lower and Upper Sioux. Some 30 Micronesian men built an authentic outrigger ...

Every year, I see a proliferation of makeshift boats, sails aloft, plodding down big lakes and rivers. Canoe sailing is a great adventure and a wonderful way to make headway and combine a rest day in ...

HONOLULU — To take the Hokulea for a spin off the coast of Oahu is to see the Hawaiian islands in perhaps the same way as their discoverers did many hundreds of years ago. Those Polynesian seafarers ...

Centuries before Captain Cook explored the South Pacific, Polynesian seafarers in canoes crossed vast swaths of water to colonize lonely islands from Samoa and New Zealand all the way to Hawaii. But ...

Yes, a canoe can be sailed. Who knew? We are not quite sure how this vessel was rigged to do this, but as you can see, it caught some air and away it went. CT boating registrations on decline since ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JULY 31: Glenn Eller of the United States practices Trap Doubles at the Olympic Shooting Center on July 31, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty ...

The recent visit to Hampton Roads by the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokule’a was just one of myriad port calls during the vessel’s three-year, 54,000-mile circumnavigation of Earth. The story of how it ...