It doesn’t get more authentic than sailing on an upscale cruise ship doubling as a freight vessel that delivers critical ...

If you thought the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) was mostly just a luau, you’d only be scratching the surface. Don’t get ...

Cruise passengers forced off course by storms get a rare glimpse of the Marquesas Islands before the weather breaks for a postcard finish.

One thing that grabs you when visiting any Polynesian island is its other-worldly beauty. The remote locations of the islands mean they are far from the world of factories, trucks, and buses ...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Tonga, potentially causing hazardous tsunami waves within 300 km of the epicenter. The ...

Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had simply lucked into finding the islands by drifting on logs. But a canoe launched half a century ...

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.

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

The 42-acre property features "villages" representing six different islands, with traditional ... or visit the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame to view plaques, photos, mementos from Polynesia's ...

Like some of the earliest European explorers in the Pacific, these writers doubted Polynesian seafaring capabilities ... wood logs from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands on the eastern edge of Polynesia ...