HUMAN COLONIZATION OF THE PACIFIC EXPLAINED

How did the Polynesians, the greatest navigators in human history, conquer the Pacific Ocean—the largest body of water on Earth—without modern navigational instruments?
In this video, we embark on a mind-blowing journey of discovery stretching from the coasts of Taiwan to Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Hawaii, and Easter Island, the most isolated inhabited place in the world. We explore the secrets of ancient master wayfinders who read the stars as a map and ocean swells and clouds as invisible highways, the incredible engineering of massive double-hulled canoes, and how all this ancient knowledge was proven once again by the historic 1976 voyage of the Hōkūleʻa.