Crew members train for the Hoki Mai challenge, a voyage that covers almost 500 kilometers, or about 300 miles across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean, in Rapa Nui, a territory that is part of Chile and ...

The voyaging canoe Hokule‘a and its crew marked the return of the vessel to Polynesian waters Saturday with a traditional landing ceremony at Anakena Beach in Rapa Nui. It was the second time the ...

Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures ...

There will be three new members at the next Polynesian Leaders Group scheduled for Pago Pago, American Samoa. New Zealand, Hawaii and Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, have been admitted as members of the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of Polynesia, the ...

The recent meeting of the Polynesian Leaders’ Group (PLG) in Tuvalu was most notable for the admission of three new members into the institution. These new members — New Zealand, Hawaii, and Rapa Nui ...

About 3,000 years ago, people on the eastern edge of Asia began sailing east, crossing the ocean to reach uninhabited islands. Their descendants, some 2,000 years later, invented the double-hulled ...

RAPA NUI, Chile >> The causes are worthy, the course is daunting — almost 500 kilometers (about 300 miles) across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean in a large canoe. It’s the Hoki Mai Challenge, which ...

RAPA NUI, Chile — The causes are worthy, the course is daunting — almost 500 kilometers (about 300 miles) across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean in a large canoe. The event consists of a canoe voyage ...

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