Timi Gilliom, captain and builder of the voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha o Pi‘ilani, awoke from a midday nap in Hui O Wa’a Kaulua’s ...

Before colonialism, commercial agriculture and tourism, thousands of breadfruit trees dotted Lahaina; the fire charred all but two of the dozen or so that remained. Now, as Maui recovers from the ...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted 79 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga, at 1:18 local time on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.

Pacific island countries such as Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu lie on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of earthquake ... Tonga is a Polynesian nation consisting of 171 islands and has ...

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Maui Solomon, chairman of the Moriori Settlement Trust ... but it’s going to tell us so much more about ocean navigation, the ...

Grass fire in Gillespie County ... Dwayne Johnson, as the voice of Maui, is also back. In my review, I wrote that “the warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in ‘Moana 2,’ but ...

Maui Solomon, chairman of the Moriori Settlement ... the early abilities of Polynesian navigators,” he said. But determining ownership of taonga found in New Zealand is not as easy as choosing ...

Avatar: Fire and Ash (aka Avatar 3 ... with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson reprising his role as Maui in the coming-of-age tale of a Polynesian girl tasked with fulfilling her destiny.

Maui is somewhat based on the mythological figure Māui in Polynesian mythology ... he pulled back the sun to prolong their days, and he stole fire from the earth's bottom to keep them warm on cold ...

The resort also has a large, lagoon-style pool overlooking the ocean, access to nonmotorized watersports, swings and loungers from which to enjoy the beach, a game room, and activities like Polynesian ...