Family Finds Remains of a Traditional MāOri Canoe on an Island, Experts Say It Was Used for Fishing and River Travel ...
While walking near a dune on New Zealand's Chatham Island, a family noticed wood sticking out of the sand — which turned out to be a traditional Moriori canoe known as a waka.
A family living on Chatham Island, a remote archipelago off the eastern coast of New Zealand’s main islands, noticed several wood pieces sticking out of a sand dune, the country’s Ministry for Culture ...
A family on the Chatham Islands found almost 20 fragments of a historic canoe, or waka, in a sand dune, officials said and photos show. Photo from Manatū Taonga / New Zealand's Ministry for ...