Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 4, 2019 11:15:09 GMT 12
TUIA 250: NEW LINES ACROSS THE PACIFIC
But the great seafarer had arrived too late to witness the golden age of long-distance Pacific voyaging. Islands once linked were isolated. One of the happy side-effects of the sometimes controversial Tuia 250 commemorations of Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769 is that new attention is being given to the achievements of Polynesian navigators and sailors, who crossed enormous distances centuries earlier – and more quickly. And with astonishing accuracy.
Science writer Andrew Crowe believes these voyaging achievements are still underestimated, and not just by Pākehā but by Māori.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/117002206/tuia-250-new-lines-across-the-pacific
But the great seafarer had arrived too late to witness the golden age of long-distance Pacific voyaging. Islands once linked were isolated. One of the happy side-effects of the sometimes controversial Tuia 250 commemorations of Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769 is that new attention is being given to the achievements of Polynesian navigators and sailors, who crossed enormous distances centuries earlier – and more quickly. And with astonishing accuracy.
Science writer Andrew Crowe believes these voyaging achievements are still underestimated, and not just by Pākehā but by Māori.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/117002206/tuia-250-new-lines-across-the-pacific