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Navigation skills The polynesian had no instruments with which to navigate therefore it was impossible to travel to distant islands.

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1 navigation skills The polynesian had no instruments with which to navigate therefore it was impossible to travel to distant islands

2 Reasons for voyaging most of the settlers of the far parts of polynesia would have been fisherman blown off course . Some of the settlers would have been outcasts driven out to sea. then when land was sighted they could make a run for it .

3 Canoes The polynesian canoes were lashed together with vegtable fibres usually coconut.

4 European sightings European explorers have recorded finding canoez way off course. Some also find polynesians wrecked and stranded on a small island.

5 Lack of tools and weapons
Polynesians had been settled by two way voyagers, others would have been explorers . These later visitors would have broguht their own tools or weapons.

6 Plants and animals Plants and animals were carried all over polynesia in the same way humans were by canoe.


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