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when the Vikings lunched there ships to Britannia the polynyas have already lunched waka across the massive pacific ocean, on there gurney they learnt how to read there surroundings as in they learnt how to know where to go just by the stars the way the tide went and what direction the fish swam.
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Archaeology suggests that the migration eastward occurred in roughly two waves, the first occurring in the Bismarck Archipelago, Samoa and Tonga from 1600–1200 BC, and the second occurring later and spreading to the outer reaches of the Polynesian Triangle, bordered by Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand.
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on the coast of South Asia a group of Polynesians started to travel across the sea they used these canoes to travel to near by islands like Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands,
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HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.
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In Raiatea where Tupaia lived there was a war then when captain Cook arrived Tupaia new he could use captain Cooks weaponry to his advantage he helped captain Cook by showing him where to go.
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It took Cook seven months to chart New Zealand's 15,000 kilometers of coastline. Cook used a method called a running survey. To do this, he sailed close to shore, taking compass readings of obvious landmarks.
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Cook and his party made their historic landing in New Zealand. Local Māori were mystified by what they saw. They thought the Endeavour was an enormous bird with wings of great size and beauty.
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Capitan Cook arrived in NZ by voyaging from England sailing all the way across the Pacific Ocean.