Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...

Normally when making a long voyage in a canoe, an adventurer would paddle the vessel as far as possible and then “portage”, or carry, the canoe over the short sections of land separating the bodies of ...

On this National Canoe Day, learn about early canoe experiments William W. Fitzhugh and Harri Luukkanen Detail of a figure featuring the Nganasan kukhungondu reindeer skin–covered boat of Taimyr, made ...

Researchers have explored how early modern humans migrated by sea from Taiwan to southern Japan approximately 30,000 years ago. To unravel the mysteries of these difficult ancient voyages, the ...

More than 30,000 years ago, seafaring humans made a momentous trek from present-day Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan—a journey of some 140 miles without any of the advanced ...

The Port Stephens Outrigger Canoe Club (PSOCC) has been left devastated after their custom built canoe trailer was stolen last week. The trailer was used by the club to transport their 13m long ...