The Great Polynesian Journey to New Zealand

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If you put some of the best sailors around in a boat with the simple technology that the Polynesian sailors had, they would probably end up drifting their death. Was it possible that gale or storm the first migrants to New Zealand or did they deliberately here?
The Polynesian navigation system was home-based. Starting islands they knew they could gradually expand their knowledge an area of ocean. By setting off, aligned with on one island, they would be able to reach island. This new island would then become part of growing “map”. They could navigate the ocean by remembering their previous journeys, and watching the ocean currents and .
As they sailed navigators (treated often as priests) also the sky, night sky and land and would change course of the boats as they were affected by pull of currents, swells, and wind.
Knowledge learned would passed onto apprentice navigators who through chants, rote learning, (in stone, wood), and through their own voyages would their path to be guides on the ocean.
The ' primary voyaging craft was the double canoe made of hulls connected by lashed crossbeams. The two hulls gave and the capacity to carry heavy loads of migrating and all their supplies and equipment. A central platform over the crossbeams provided the needed working, living, and space. Sails were made of matting, and long steering enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course. medium-size voyaging canoe 50 to 60 feet long could about twenty migrants, their food supplies, livestock, and planting .
The Polynesians preserved most of the meals they would for a long canoe voyage by drying or fermenting raw or cooked food. This food would not spoil . They could catch fresh fish on the journey and cooked on a hearth lined with stone, coral and and fuelled by coconut husk. Water was carried in and sections of bamboo and stored along with drinking . If a canoe ran into a rainsquall, they could more water as it ran off the sail and could ration the water as needed.
The Polynesian voyaging carried pigs, chickens and dogs which were intended as stock for a new settlement, though they could also eaten if stores dipped perilously low. Rats were sometimes passengers and may have occasionally provided an emergency meal.
first journeys to New Zealand could have been by with canoes blown off their course. However, study of and knowledge of the skills of the early Polynesian , suggests that the first discoverers sailed to New Zealand Hawakii (somewhere in the Pacific Asian island area) deliberately.