A group of indigenous Taiwanese seafarers have completed a daring quest, braving choppy waters and using just the stars for navigation as they paddled a traditional wooden canoe to the Philippines –– in a journey that highlights the astonishing feat of human migration into the Pacific.
Sixty indigenous Taiwanese seafarers paddled a traditional wooden canoe 111 miles to the Philippines using star navigation.
The journey replicates a migration route first taken over 4,000 years ago by ancestors of Austronesian peoples.
Taiwan is the genetic and linguistic origin point for many groups who spread across the Pacific and beyond, from Hawaii to Madagascar.
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