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.

preserving a culture Damian 04/08/2005 12:32:56 Can a Tokelauan culture be preserved- and more importantly still be relevant- if/ when Tokelau becomes uninhabitable due to climate change? That's what we've got a forum for- go ahead and post your opinion!	audio files Damian 04/08/2005 10:11:12 if you want to hear the sounds of Tokelau, Mark has set up some mp3 files- click into "about tokelau" and head for "sounds of tokelau"... enjoy!	New Blog Damian 30/07/2005 15:31:04 Hi - please check back here often, and you can read updates on our progress.
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