by Judy Robinson
Every voyager harbours a sense of home. In island cultures throughout Polynesia, there exists a spiritual homeland conceptualised as Hawaiki; “to get to the core of a culture, one can do no better than to start with myth” (Kirch 2015: 219).
Polynesian sailors knew their way around the Pacific. Their understanding of sea routes and sailing conditions was the envy of many early European explorers. In 1774 the Spanish navigator Andia y Varela reported that, every evening, two Tahitians he had . . .
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