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A Rare Polynesian Canoe Was Found By A Fisherman And His Son In New Zealand
Around 3,000 years ago, people from Southeast Asia began sailing out into the Pacific and settling on the islands of […] ...
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A Fisherman and His Son Noticed Strange Pieces of Wood on a Beach. They Turned Out to Be Fragments of a Polynesian Canoe
The boat, known as a waka, was unearthed in the Chatham Islands. Researchers say it could be one of the most significant ...
Dad and son stumble upon ‘one of the most important finds of all time in Polynesia’
What started as a “normal day” salvaging wood in New Zealand eventually led to a large-scale excavation that uncovered more ...
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Dad and son stumble upon ‘one of the most important finds of all time in Polynesia’
Photo from Justin Maxwell via Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage “Waka is the Māori word for canoe,” according to the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The term can refer to a wide ...