When archaeologists dig up nuts from the extinct Easter Island palm, the nuts are often marred by tiny grooves, made by the sharp teeth of Polynesian rats. The rats arrived in the same canoes as ...

Voyaging canoes moved southward, northward and southeast to ultimately inhabit Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand, all in the short period of about 400 years. When Europeans first explored the ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into ... the islands of Hawai'i in the north, Easter Island in the southeast, and New Zealand ...

What actually the Easter Island sculpture does ... On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks like a miniature version of our statue's face at the ...

Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on ... and their island empire stretched from Hawaii to New Zealand and Easter Island. Although paddling remains a national ...