A family on the Chatham Islands found almost 20 fragments of a historic canoe, or waka, in a sand dune, officials said and photos show. Photo from Manatū Taonga / New Zealand's Ministry for ...

On a remote island of New Zealand, a family noticed ... to conduct follow-up searches for other canoe fragments and preserve the pieces already found. “With the vulnerability of the waka to ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe ... Zealand in the southwest, thus completing settlement, by around 1000 AD, of the area we know today as the ...

A Norwegian adventurer, followed by a New Zealand historian ... the Pacific and then throughout the Polynesian triangle. Sharp claimed that the canoes of the Polynesians were not seaworthy ...