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TIL in 1975 the Hōkūleʻa, a modern but performance-accurate Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, sailed from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti using only ancient Polynesian wayfinding techniques (non-instrume... (en.wikipedia.org)
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Original Title: TIL in 1975 the Hōkūleʻa, a modern but performance-accurate Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, sailed from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti using only ancient Polynesian wayfinding techniques (non-instrument navigation), likely saving those techniques from extinction.

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