When the Southeast Asian sailors started out on their odyssey they were not yet identifiably Polynesian. Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high ...

Based on our travel intel and scouring sources like Tripadvisor and dive blogs, we've compiled a list of Polynesian islands ...

In 1973, Ben Finney and a group of Polynesian specialists and canoe enthusiasts formed the Polynesian Voyaging Society to build a large voyaging canoe to attempt the Hawai'i - Tahiti round-trip in ...

Fishing here is not allowed, because that would be just too easy. It's been an unforgettable day of adventure in this wild and ancient corner of paradise, a Polynesian jewel called Rangiroa.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

What is the Partula snail? Also known as the Polynesian tree snail or niho tree snail, the Partula snail (Partula nodosa) is actually one of several snail species of the genus—all of which are ...

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The skyline around Walt Disney Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom will change yet again later this year with the opening of a new tower building at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort.

In my opinion, the film is unfortunately a product that has used Polynesian culture and mythology to its own capitalistic benefit and is clearly told from the perspective of the white man ...

Until now, proponents of Native American and Polynesian interaction reasoned that some common cultural elements, such as a similar word used for a common crop, hinted that the two populations had ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act. By Walker Mimms ...