The search for a navigator led them 4,000 kilometers west, to the tiny Micronesian island of Satawal. The island is just over ...

The Alingano Maisu, a traditional double-hulled Micronesian canoe, has landed at Taiwan's Orchid Island. Built in memory of Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug, and used to teach ancestral navigation ...

Tebuteb explained that the Maisu is a double-hulled canoe, which was a gift from the people from Hawaii to Mau Piailug for teaching the Polynesian people the lost knowledge of traditional sailing ...

In 1976, led by Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug, they sailed Hōkūle‘a over 2,500 miles, from Hawai‘i to Tahiti, without instruments. In 2017, Hōkūle‘a completed a circumnavigation of ...

In 1976, led by Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug, they sailed Hōkūle‘a over 2,500 miles, from Hawai‘i to Tahiti, without instruments. In 2017, Hōkūle‘a completed a circumnavigation of the planet. In ...

“Our ancestors understood this.” Modern wayfinding was revived and taught by master navigator Mau Piailug and carried forward by Nainoa Thompson. It is more than steering a canoe. It requires ...