Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high islands and atolls they found in the sea, did the ocean-oriented Polynesian culture take on its classic form.

The area of Polynesia is roughly defined as a triangle bounded by Hawaii ... Astronomy proved as useful to the Polynesian culture as it did any other, with stars useful as navigational beacons ...

he proposed that the settlement was simply the product of many accidental voyages which had moved the Polynesians slowly westward across the Pacific and then throughout the Polynesian triangle.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson loves showcasing Polynesian culture through the 'Moana' franchise. The 52-year-old actor voices Maui in the Disney animated film franchise, and Dwayne has admitted to ...