A new genetic study suggests that Polynesians made an epic voyage to South America 800 years ago. By Carl Zimmer About 3,000 years ago, people on the eastern edge of Asia began sailing east, crossing ...

The origins and current genetic relationships of Pacific Islanders have generated interest and controversy for many decades. Now, a new comprehensive genetic study of almost 1,000 individuals has ...

THE veteran missionary who writes this book lived for more than twenty years on the islands of the Pacific, at the time—a generation ago—when the peoples of the western Pacific were scarcely known, ...

THE exploits of the early Polynesians in discovering and populating, at one time or another, every habitable island in the Pacific mark them as the most daring deep-sea voyagers the world has ever ...

A review of literary and oral history suggests Polynesians, and not Europeans, were the first to explore Antarctic waters and possibly even spot the frozen continent itself.

A review of literary and oral history suggests Polynesians, and not Europeans, were the first to explore Antarctic waters and possibly even spot the frozen continent itself. European explorers are ...

Fish poisoning, or ciguatera could be the reason that New Zealand, Easter Island and, possibly, Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries became colonized by masses of migrating Polynesians. Ciguatera ...

PAPEETE, French Polynesia — French President Emmanuel Macron has reasserted his nation’s presence in the Pacific on a visit to French Polynesia, a trip aimed at countering growing Chinese dominance in ...

Though keep in mind, the Spanish were travelling blind, the first voyages having no idea where any potential harbors, islands or places to reload/rest would have been. The Polynesians at least had the ...