Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We'd been at sea all afternoon and most of the ...

For millennia, Pacific voyagers have relied on techniques such as these to reach thousands of islands, strewn throughout our planet’s largest ocean. They did so without Western instruments. Instead, ...

The United Airlines flight from Sydney to San Francisco stopped twice on its way across the Pacific. After a forced diversion ...