Remains of traditional canoe found in stream

A father and son living on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand, have found the remains of a waka, an ancient canoe, that would have been used by Polynesian people. People from Polynesia (more than 1,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean) would navigate the sea using their knowledge of the stars, wind and waves to set their direction. Between about AD1200 and 1300, the first people to find and settle in New Zealand arrived from Polynesia on wakas. It is thought that a couple of hundred years later, a group of people living in New Zealand, the Moriori, sailed to the Chatham Islands. Today, the descendants of the Moriori still live on the islands. The waka pieces were found by Vincent Dix and his son Nikau…

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