was asked to put the aircraft's long-range and versatile capabilities to use to find six seafarers missing aboard a traditional Yapese canoe. The canoe had set out from the Piagailoe Atoll for a ...

It is evidence that the Micronesian voyaging canoe is literally a design taken from nature. Deep ocean sailing As the festival gets underway, in Colonia, the capital of Yap State, Yapese women will ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The official currency of Micronesia is the US dollar, but the island state of Yap ...

They focus on topics relevant to the region, including Yapese canoe-building, civic engagement among Guam’s millennial population and colonialism in the Pacific. The five authors recognized in ...