Around 1,000 years ago, navigators from the Marquesas Islands launched an unprecedented voyage of discovery across the Pacific Ocean. Steering hand-hewn canoes across 2,000 miles of uncharted seas, guided by stars, ocean swells, birds, and cloud formations, they found one of the most remote archipelagos on Earth – the Hawaiian Islands.
Na mokupuni o Hawaii nei by Simona P. Kalama, Lahainaluna Seminary. Published by Kulanui Lahainaluna, Maui 1837. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.