Hokule’a’s 1976 voyage proved deliberate Pacific settlement by wayfinding

Evidence

Read from a book about the great Pacific navigators and the voyaging revival — for example, accounts of the Hokule’a, the double-hulled voyaging canoe that, beginning in 1976, sailed across the Pacific using only traditional wayfinding, with no instruments, navigated by Mau Piailug, a master navigator from Satawal. Several children’s books tell this story. The voyages proved what some outsiders had doubted: that the Pacific was settled on purpose, by skilled navigators who could find tiny islands across vast distances and sail home again. — , A Year of World Stories, 12448

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapter content on Aka and Hotu Matua voyaging ancestors, and to my interest in how material demonstrations settle long-disputed factual questions. — connects to: Some outsiders dismissed Pacific settlement as accidental because navigation seemed impossible — , A Year of World Stories, 12450
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the voyage as argument’ — how a physical feat becomes evidence that resettles a historical debate outsiders had deemed closed.

Related

• Some outsiders dismissed Pacific settlement as accidental because navigation seemed impossible (similarity 0.93)

Broader Connections

• Some outsiders dismissed Pacific settlement as accidental because navigation seemed impossible #responds-to (0.85) — , A Year of World Stories, 12450