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The Fijian double canoe (wangga ndrua, spelt waqa drua in Fijian) was the largest and finest sea-going vessel ever designed and built by natives of Oceania before contact with Europeans. — Canoes of Oceania Volume I: The Canoes of Polynesia, Fiji, and Micronesia (1936) [1]
The defining features of the camakau is that it is a single hulled canoe, with a small outrigger boom, and a cama, a float. [15] The camakau is occasionally made in two pieces, in which case it is called a veikoso. [2] An outrigger is a long piece of wood, approximately the length of canoe, attached and parallel to the canoe. [16]
Takia are a traditional watercraft of Fiji. They are a type of outrigger canoe that is smaller than a camakau, which in turn is smaller than a drua. A takia hull is a dugout made from any suitable wood. They rarely have sails, and do not feature a centreboard. An oar is used as a rudder. [1] [2] [3]
Kaunitoni, according to Fijian ancestral story, was a canoe which sailed from an ancient homeland in the West, carrying the ancestor gods Lutunasobasoba and Degei, who are variously considered the ancestors of the Fijian people.
In 2010, O Tahiti Nui Freedom, an outrigger sailing canoe, retraced the path of the Polynesian migration by sailing from Tahiti to China via the Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, Palau, and the Philippines in 123 days. [88] In 2013, a modern, non-instrument voyage was launched called MÄlama Honua.
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Bradley Dawson is escorted through Lautoka High Court in Suva, Fiji, on Jan. 27, 2025. Dawson was convicted in the murder of his wife, Christie Chen, on their honeymoon in 2023.
After several days running from the storm, they came to land. They beached their canoe there and called the place Vuda (Our Origin) on the northwest corner of Viti Levu. Lutunasobasoba was greatly distressed at losing the tablets (vola) and sent a canoe to look for it. The crew discovered the Yasawa Islands, but failed to find the tablets. [3]