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The ocean holds a power within her, a volume that our species is incapable of comprehending. She makes up nearly 75% of the planet we call home, yet we know only her surface. We know the seven seas, our major oceans, but we don’t know all her history. We know the great barrier reef and the inhabitants. We know the beautiful blue whale and we know of great whites.
We also know how we have used and abused the ocean, making her our trash bin, a place we could discard things and forget about them. But long before Europeans were sailing the ocean and trying to figure out how to calculate longitude and latitude, there was a group of people who respected the ocean, and listened to her. These people settled some of the farthest reaches of the world, and it all started nearly four thousand years ago, in a dugout canoe.
SHOW NOTES
:30THE FIRST POLYNESIAN VOYAGES
2:48 EUROPEAN OPPRESSION
3:39 THE STORIES
4:20 THE STARS
5:45 VENTURING INTO LOCAL WATERS
6:30 THE DEPARTURE
7:05 THE VOYAGE
8:07 THE ARRIVAL
9:20 EUROPEAN ARRIVAL TO POLYNESIA
11:50 TON TIKA
12:30 REVIVAL OF WAYFINDING
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The ocean holds a power within her, a volume that our species is incapable of comprehending. She makes up nearly 75% of the planet we call home, yet we know only her surface. We know the seven seas, our major oceans, but we don’t know all her history. We know the great barrier reef and the inhabitants. We know the beautiful blue whale and we know of great whites.
We also know how we have used and abused the ocean, making her our trash bin, a place we could discard things and forget about them. But long before Europeans were sailing the ocean and trying to figure out how to calculate longitude and latitude, there was a group of people who respected the ocean, and listened to her. These people settled some of the farthest reaches of the world, and it all started nearly four thousand years ago, in a dugout canoe.
SHOW NOTES
:30THE FIRST POLYNESIAN VOYAGES
2:48 EUROPEAN OPPRESSION
3:39 THE STORIES
4:20 THE STARS
5:45 VENTURING INTO LOCAL WATERS
6:30 THE DEPARTURE
7:05 THE VOYAGE
8:07 THE ARRIVAL
9:20 EUROPEAN ARRIVAL TO POLYNESIA
11:50 TON TIKA
12:30 REVIVAL OF WAYFINDING
Connect with Sydney Zaruba: