Paddling the Pacific (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Paddling the Pacific

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A canoeist paddles between the islands of Vava'u, Tonga. A new University of Utah study uses mathematical modeling to get a better idea of the strategies employed by early seafarers when they used outrigger canoes to settle the islands of the vast Pacific Ocean between 3,500 and 900 years ago.

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Adrian Bell, University of Utah

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