Stowed away in the margins of Captain Cook's and Joseph Banks's diaries, the enigmatic Polynesian has no known portrait ... He wasn't just any interpreter. Tupaia was an artist, high priest and star ...

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 ...

The quick-service restaurant at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort is named for an explorer whose legacy many Indigenous ...