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PVS Announces New Moananuiākea Sail Plan
Since Hōkūleʻa’s return to Hawaiʻi in December, the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) has been developing a new sail plan for the Moananuiākea Voyage. After consulting with science and weather experts, community partners and voyaging leadership, PVS has decided to...
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Our members have been the mainstay of support to PVS for five decades, allowing us to grow our legacy of wayfinding and voyaging...
![The American Association of Geographers (AAG) has announced Nainoa Thompson as this year's Honorary Geographer. Nainoa presented at the AAG annual meeting yesterday afternoon. The AAG annual meeting is being held in Honolulu from April 16-20.
“This award honors Nainoa for his groundbreaking efforts in reviving ancestral wayfinding practices and his advocacy for environmental sustainability. An explorer, Pwo Navigator, cultural revivalist, educator, and storyteller, he has been instrumental in reconnecting the diverse lands and cultures of Polynesia,” said Reece Jones, the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment (GEO) in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Thompson learned to sail using traditional methods of stars, wind and waves from master navigator Mau Piailug of Satawal. He also studied astronomy with Will Kyselka, Bishop Museum Planetarium lecturer. Thompson’s first journey was In 1980 when he guided the Hōkūle‘a, a traditional double-hulled canoe, from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti.
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