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  • Polynesian Voyaging Society

    The website of the Polynesian Voyaging Society includes information on history and culture, canoes and journeys that have been made.

  • Transit of Venus - waka voyaging

    A website explaining canoe navigation from a New Zealand viewpoint, with footage of double-hulled canoes sailing to and from New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

    • Evans, Jeff. The discovery of Aotearoa. Auckland: Reed, 1998.

    • Golson, Jack, ed. Polynesian navigation. Wellington: Polynesian Society, 1962.

    • Lewis, David. We, the navigators. Wellington: Reed, 1972.

    • Lindo, Cecilia Kapua, and Nancy Alpert Mower, eds. Polynesian seafaring heritage. Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools, 1980.

    • Nelson, Anne. Maori canoes: nga waka Maori. Auckland: Macmillan, 1991.

    • Whakataka-Brightwell, Mātahi. Waka. Wellington: Learning Media, 1994.



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