Perpetuating the cultures of Hawaii and Micronesia is the goal of a group of Native Hawaiians and expert canoe builders from Micronesia who together have built on Kauai a hand-made koa wood canoe.

Five canoes found at the bottom of an Italian ... for each boat at the same site is unusual. Each wood had different properties that made them useful for different tasks. Researchers are confident ...

The term can refer to a wide range of boats made by “ancestors of ... shows the “remote” site where the canoe was discovered. Several pieces of wood, including “driftwood and debris ...