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072 - How Did Humans Find Hawaii?

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The Contiki Expedition, 1947

The Polynesian Voyaging Society is really interesting. I created this boat and they sailed literally around the entire world with it. There was a guy from maybe Norway in the 1940s, Thor. He had this theory that parts of Polynesia were maybe settled by people from South America or vice versa. It's one of the last high adventure, 19th century romanticism era things that happened in the West.

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