Last week, the Worldwide Voyage set sail from Nuku’alofa in the Kingdom of Tonga after days of community connection and shared learning. The next stop on this 47,000-mile journey will be Aotearoa, or New Zealand, which will serve as a crucial port along the way for historical, cultural, ancestral and educational reasons. In order to navigate the course to Aotearoa using traditional wayfinding methods, the crews aboard Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia are relying on the Kermadec Islands—a special group of 15 islands that serve not only as a navigational waypoint, but a cultural and conservational one as well. Read More
