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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 a section on New Zealand waka, and footage of double-hulled canoes sailing to and from New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

    • Best, Elsdon. The Maori canoe. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally published 1925).

    • Evans, Jeff. Nga waka o nehera: the first voyaging canoes. Auckland: Reed, 1997.

    • Evans, Jeff. Waka taua: the Maori war canoe. Auckland: Reed, 2000.



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