How do navigators find, and keep their direction across oceans?
INTERACTIVE MAP
1200 - 1300 Maaori arrivals
1300 - 1500 Paa sites
1500 - 1700 Iwi Migrations
1500 - 1800 Trade Routes
1600 -1840 European arrivals - Explorers
1600 -1840 European arrivals - Missionaries
1600 - 1840 European arrivals - Whalers
1769 - 1840 Maaori explores the world
1835 - 1839 Signing of Whakaputanga
The documentary below follows Northland building contractor Hekenukumai 'Hector' Busby, as he leads the construction of a waka hourua (double-hulled canoe), then retraces Kupe's course across the Pacific, back to Rarotonga.
This site celebrates the incredible story of our Polynesian ancestors, our tupuna. A story that has remained largely untold in our schools since the arrival of Captain Cook, 250 years ago. We begin with the story of the greatest migration in the history of mankind.