Canoe Tokelau

Canoe Tokelau is an exploration and education project to rediscover, understand, use and share traditional Polynesian ocean navigation and boat building knowledge. It’s exciting, challenging and all about Tokelau.

By constructing and sailing a Tokelauan voyaging canoe from the atoll of Atafu south to Western Samoa, we aim to celebrate the traditional understanding of the Pacific environment and demonstrate the relevance of Faka Tokelau to a closer intimacy with the world we now live in.

Tokelau consists of 3 atolls in central Polynesia (what about Olohega?), an area of island chains spread across the vastness of the Pacific ocean. The three low lying coral atolls, Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu are far enough apart to be over the horizon from each other, and 300 miles North of Western Samoa, remote in the central South Pacific.

Click here to see the progress map.

Tulano the Tokelauan sailor Tamiano 27/03/2009 23:26:11 on March 28th, Tulano Toloa, a driving force in traditional Tokelauan navigation and sailing, will be sailing from Tikopia, in the Solomons, to Lata, the provincial capital, and back in New Zealand in mid April. He's an inspiration, and we can't wait to share more when he's back!	a big big book damian 16/05/2007 14:55:34 it's not often i recommend an overly large book, but we had a request about somewhere to learn more about Polynesian canoes- i have to recommend "Canoes of Oceania", which you can fine second hand through abe books not cheap, but a lot of pages, and a fascinating read for us canoe nutheads.	updated damian 12/03/2007 11:06:35 the link works now...
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