I remember when I was in Rarotonga back in 1992 for the Pacific Festival of Arts with Hawaii’s delegation, I still remember like it was yesterday. The Marshallese sailors were first ones to arrive to Raro in their traditional canoe and they were using the traditional navigations. It was like a race. They beat out every others Islands sailors and hate to admit this but they did. They were welcomed by the Kukis dancers on the beach. I kept asking their captain a lot of questions just out of curiosity. It was fascinating.

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Tupaia was an awesome historical figure. Thanks for sharing!

So awesome this truth starts with the natives before any new world...so proud of your work❤

Mahalo for sharing this wonderful story! The exhibit looks beautiful!

Interesting facts about Tapaia navigating the waters with Cpt Cook drawing of maps and the longitude travel times of the sea how could I find his map is there a link other that he was wise intelligent man ⛵🌊

That's how the white man from Britain found nz not who really found it 1st like hoturoa or tametekapua or even kupe and wha tonga and there was French and Dutch sailors that came before captain james cook

Cook left Tupaia in Indonesia to die he didn't want to take him to England because Cooked wanted to hide Tupaia the Navigators story and take the glory. On Cooks last journeys through Polynesia the Hawaiians killed him maybe this was a spiritual karma.

TUPAIA showed them yt devils where we lived.

1st ever.

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Can’t forget Maori chief “Nuku Nuku forshort” went to Hawaii n Tahiti to battle they didn’t want to so we took a lot of Tahiti Hawaiian lady’s

Don’t celebrate captain cook . If it wasn’t for him meeting tupaia he would have died especially if he landed in autearoa they would have cooked him and ate him he was luckey . Look what happened at Waimea on Kauai he put his hands on a chief a death chant was cried out by the people and he was beaten to a pulp in the water the water ran red all the way to kekaha .he should have listened to tupaia and turned back but he was greedy and wanted to claim all the islands for him self . You know to funny because they say that Polynesian People found Hawaii by accident but it’s the other way around captain cook was lost and drifting about not knowing where he was going but not my ancestors they knew exactly what they were doing .Polynesian people were the great navigators and the white man was the accidental drifters .fact

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Borodobur Ship, Korakoraship(The Austronesian Korean Turtle ship, kora kora or kura-kura mean tortoise, Peninsular, Philippine, Maluku Island, Sumatra, Borneoan], kota mara or Kotta Mara[kota in malay mean walled city and fort, but also city] ship=austronesia ironclad but in wooden/wooden fort ship, Indonesia-Malaysia ship 'Lancang Kuning'[Peninsular, Riau archipelago, Riau Sumatra, Jambi Sumatra and North Borneo/Brunei], Perahu Besar Terengganu, Pinsi[South Sulawesi] ship and many2 more. sampan=small boat, rakit=raft. that who Borneo and Sumatra settle Madagascar, bring rice, yam, chicken, Sumatran and Peninsular Malayan also attacked Sri Lanka and Swahili coast, the King Chandrabanu attack on Sri Lanka, and then build stupa in Sri lanka shape, today in Nakhon Si Thammarat[Malay:Negara Seri Dhamaraja or Ligor], still standing. "Rumah Gadang', Rumah Balon and Malay roof style 'Rumah Lontik' base on 'ship' and water buffalos horn.

Yes i am thinking that Tupaia was naughty because by him travelling with Captain Cook and gave the map of the pacific, Captain Cook deserved everything he got. He was evil and greedy. If any of families are reading my comments, i apologise for nothing. Look what the Hawaiians did to him in the end!!!!

TONGA Lapita Origin of Polynesia 😊

Taonga o Tongan Empire Maui Tonga Fusifonua Master Navigators Ruler of Polynesia 🙏