Closing the Triangle: A Quest for Rapa Nui
Polynesian Voyaging Society
4.0. Resources
Websites
Numerous voyaging education resources exist on the Internet. The site http://www.hokulea.net has link to many of those sites, including the following:
Polynesian Voyaging Society: Daily Reports, Maps, Educational Packet (History and Heritage, Vision and Exploration, Our Sacred Earth); Background on Polynesian Voyaging Traditions; History of Høküleça and the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
University of Hawaiçi School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology: Map Tracking Høküleça's Position Daily:. The track is from fixes from a GPS unit on the escort boat or an ARGOS transponder on the canoe.
"An Odyssey in Voyaging": This Hawaii State Department of Education e-school course for the 9th-12th grades will allow students to follow Høküleça's Voyage to Rapa Nui as well as engage them in other scientific and cultural projects. .
"Let's Go Voyaging": Voyaging and Ocean Environment Curriculum for grades 4-6, developed by Moanalua Garden Foundation and the Hawaii State Department of Education.
"Wayfinders: a Pacific Odyssey": a PBS website in conjunction with an hour-long film by Gail Evenari on the history of Polynesian Voyaging and the 1995 voyage of Hokule'a and Hawai'iloa to the Marquesas Islands. (You may order the film from this website.) .
"Secrets of Easter Island": a PBS/NOVA website in conjuction with a NOVA documentary on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), with a map of the island; photos, audio, and video; and a synopsis of Easter Island history.
Rapa Nui Home Page: Links to Other Sites about Rapa Nui/Easter Island.
"Te Pito o Te Henua / The Navel of the World": Hawaii State Department of Education website for an hour-long Film about Rapa Nui. .
Hawaiian Voyaging Website constructed by students from Aiea, King Kaumualii, Moanalua, and Waimalu Elementary Schools as an entry for ThinkQuest Jr.,1999.
Newspaper Articles
Honolulu Advertiser Articles: On the ecology of Rapa Nui (Sam Gon, Nature Conservancy Biologist, Summer 1998); Interview with Ben Finney on Rapa Nui voyage, Fall 1998; "Son of the Sea"-Interview with Nainoa Thompson; Nov. 22, 1998; Voyage to Rapa Nui Graphics, June 6, 1999; "Women of Hokule'a," June 6 1999.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Articles: "Sail of the Century" (June 7, 1999); "The Loneliest Island" (June 14, 1999).
Video Broadcasts and Products
"Let's Go Voyaging"/"Exploring Islands" (Maura O'Connor, Colleen Murakami): Three Distance Learning TV Programs featuring liveVideo Teleconferences with Hokule'a. (Target audience: 10,000 4-6 grade social studies students in Hawai'i.
KidScience, Hawai'i State Department of Education (Patty Miller): Three Distance Learning TV programs in the Fall 1999 featuring live Video Teleconferences with Hokule'a. Curriculum guide will be distributed to interested teachers. Funded by the Bishop Museum and NASA. Target audience: 5-6 grade students in Hawai'i and across the continental USA.
EARTH Elementary Geography Teleschool, Hawai'i State Department of Education (Sue Arsiga): Pacific Island Geography-distance learning TV lessons on Rapa Nui (Target audience: 4000-5000 5th grade social studies students in Hawai'i)
Bishop Museum / 'Olelo (Guy Kaulukukui and Naçalehu Anthony, Bishop Museum): Half hour TV specials on 'Olelo, based on Weekly Satellite Phone Conferences with the Canoe (Tuesday) broadcast on Thursdays at 8 p.m.
'Olelo (Cable TV Access): Video of Nainoa Thompson, Speaking about voyaging and Malama Hawai'i; half-hour video on Crew Training.
Hawai'i State Department of Education; Office of Intformation and Techology Services (Ann Marie Kirk): "Te Pito o Te Henua: Rapa Nui"; Educational Video on Rapa Nui (One Hour). First Broadcast: KHET, March 31, 1999. Will be broadcast on çOlelo (April 1, April 13, 17, 24, Channel 53, on O'ahu; May 5 and 12, Channel 56, Statewide.) See related website.
KITV (ABC News Affiliate, Paula Akana): Half-Hour Special on Rapa Nui (June 1998); Another special upcoming on August 29, 1999, to kick off the voyage to Rapa Nui.; copies of program and vignettes will be available from the station
KGMB (CBS affiliate / Kim Gennaula), Special on Rapa Nui Voyage; copies of program and vignettes will be available from the station at the end of September.
Radio
KINE 105.1 FM: Navigators on board Hokule'a will present "Na Hoku Ho'okele / 'The Navigation Stars'"about the night sky and wayfinding. The broadcast will take in once a week in the evening after sunset on the voyage to Rapa Nui (September-October, 1999). On the Voyage Home (Tahiti to Hawai'i, January 2000), the broadcasts will take place in the early morning before dawn as well as in the evening after sunset.
KWXX (Hilo): Updates on the Voyage.