The ancient Polynesians were incredibly skilled navigators who managed to discover and settle on hundreds of islands across ...

We know a significant part of the blackbirding story took place in the farming fields of Australia. But the people of the ...

Hancock argues that Polynesian settlers encountered a pre-existing population, evidenced by banana remains from at least ...

Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.

In the South Pacific there is no such thing as a deserted island. They may be the most isolated in the world, but every one of the region's 20,000 islands has been colonised, from New Guinea – home to ...

In his new Netflix series, Graham Hancock suggested that the Easter Island heads were built by his long-lost ancient ...

It is fun to go native, but you don’t need to strip down when it comes to incorporating native plants into your Hawaiian ...

The Hokule‘a voyaging canoe, refreshed after four weeks in dry dock, sailed into Pearl Harbor Saturday morning as it resumed ...

Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.

Modern materials make it lightning fast and easy to manoeuvre. Polynesians are renowned seafarers, and their island empire stretched from Hawaii to New Zealand and Easter Island. Although paddling ...

Research involving about 1000 participants by the University of Auckland has highlighted an urgent need to improve mental ...