Hōkūleʻa's voyage to Tahiti
- Period
- 1976
- Region
- Oceania
- Place
- 하와이 - 타히티
- Category
- Exploration
Hōkūleʻa is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively traditional navigation techniques. The primary goal of the voyage was to explore the anthropological theory of the Asiatic origin of native Oceanic people as the result of purposeful trips through the Pacific Ocean, as opposed to passive drifting on currents or sailing from the Americas. DNA analysis supports this theory. A secondary project goal was to have the canoe and voyage "serve as vehicles for the cultural revitalization of Hawaiians and other Polynesians."
Sources: Wikipedia — Hōkūleʻa · CC BY-SA 4.0
Earlier and later events nearby
- 1942Battle of Midway
- 1945Charter of the United Nations
- 1951Treaty of San Francisco
- 1976Hōkūleʻa's voyage to TahitiThis page
Who ruled this land
This place (sea or a small island) has no state in the historical borders data (Cliopatria).