The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ... of voyages to the far corners of the Polynesian triangle, these oceanic colonizers ...

The film explores the formation and cultural history of Hawaii, detailing its volcanic origins, the arrival of Polynesians, and its eventual status as the 50th state of the United States in 1959.

indeed their ancient cultural heritage as a uniquely oceanic people. That is why the Hokule'a project so captured the Hawaiian imagination, and why its passage through Polynesian seas has so ...