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Canoe navigation


by Rāwiri Taonui

Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of Māori journeyed out of South-East Asia and into the Pacific. They sailed in waka (canoes), and were some of the world's greatest canoe builders, navigators and mariners.

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Main image: Canoes Te Au-o-Tonga (left) and Te Aurere off the East Coast, 2000

Canoes Te Au-o-Tonga (left) and Te Aurere off the East Coast, 2000


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