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