The Hidden Antarctic History of Polynesians

Is it possible that a Polynesian tribe existed in Antarctica? We explore the oral history of the Maori in New Zealand as recorded in a book from 1904 to find out. The early Polynesians and later Maori were expert travelers of the sea and could find land in the middle of the vast pacific ocean by following the stars and natural patterns of the earth. They no doubt knew of the giant continent to the south of them, Antarctica and traveled there on at least several occasions. It is challenging to conduct archaeological studies in Antarctica so evidence for this settlement has gone unnoticed. However the Native Maori in New Zealand, The Cook Islands, the Tonga Islands, and many more around the pacific know the truth of the antarctic history and of the early Polynesian voyages to Antarctica.

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[freetrudge]

It sounds crazy! But…
No one would have believed that they actually settled Rapa Nui or Hawaii if they weren’t still living there or hadn’t carved giant faces all over the island.

[damink_]

Im maori this was a cool vid. We still have our dubble hulled waka, theyre called waka hourua. And when europeans were first exploring the sub Antarctic islands they did find maori living on enderby and auckland island. They were 'relocated' to the mainland of te waipounamu. ive hears stories of ancient explorers to Antarctica but never the actual stories so cheers for uploading e hoa

[dieterschonefeld]

Knew a man from Tonga many years ago. He told me how his fathers read the waves: They first where taught how to distinguish between "wind-born" waves and the "coast-made" ones. Next was education about how the changing weather modifies both kinds. Last what kind of coast had created the "coast-made" ones. And psychological: All teaching ONLY was given at sea being surrounded by and experiencing it with ones whole body and mind.

[digabledoug]

There are no walruses in Antartica but there are elephant seals. Unless the Polynesians adventured further north from Hawaii to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. They are hundreds of barren, treeless rocky islands that look born from the sea. Often covered in mist and fog and in darkness half the year. Giant kelp is found there and the sea around the islands can become frozen and thus more viscus. There are icebergs as well coming from the glaciers that surround the Gulf of Alaska. I have no doubt that the Polynesians routinely sailed to Antartica from New Zealand. A more remarkable feat would be to make it to the Arctic and Alaska which is a plausable possiblity from the historic discriptions.

[mountainadventures]

I don’t doubt the Polynesians explored both ends of the Pacific. Not at all.

[hilossrt]

I think it’s very likely that they traveled the entire pacific but I don’t think for a moment they had any reason to settle the arctic or Antarctic.

[jimkessler]

" It is a common myth that walruses are found in Antarctica.
Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere, and walrus are only found in the northern hemisphere "

[johngreen]

I am Tahiti, Māori mix, Born in Honolulu Hawaii. I like the video. Thank you.

[raphlvlogs]

the native people of the tip of South America could also have accidentally discovered Antarctica when fishing in the open seas

[johnwilliams]

Captain Cook visited Tahiti and got to know the people. Some time after he left Captain Wallis also visited. Having read all of Wallis's notes Cook revisited Tahiti and looked for some of the islands Wallis had described. One of them he failed to find. Then while there he asked the Head Priest/Scientist, Tupaia, if he knew of this island. Tupaia said he did and under his direction Tupaia took Cook directly to the island.

[hawaiianheartbreakherstory_tm]

GREAT VIDEO! My dad is Hawaiian royalty and my mom comes from Sinclairs and Vikings, world sailors that already discovered the world before Columbus. Everybody was traveling all over for tens of thousands of years, but the narrative they give us in America is this one directional migration out of africa.

[Psilocybiant]

Bro this was an VERY thought provoking vid. Well done sir

[hankovereem]

I am surprised that you mentioned that Maori pottery had been found on Sub-Antartic Islands as NZ Maori did have pottery.

[tracyalan]

I just found this video and it's great. It is great example of why the Polynesian Voyaging Society is doing with the sailing of Hawaiian canoes to see the range of travel that Polynesians can do. It's great for all those of Pacific Island descent that it is possible. I believe the current trek of the society was in Alaska recently.

[vasilikosmakos]

Walruses dont live in Antartica (only the Artic) so what animal are they looking at. The seals there don't have any tusks.

[hankakah]

The Polynesians were crisscrossing the Pacific long ago. The proof that they visited S. America is the sweet potato found in many Polynesians cultures through trade or brought to them. Hokule'a showed that a two hulled canoe could sail up all the way to Japan and Alaska, traversing the dangerous rough open ocean waters. They proved that by knowing the stars they were able to go to and return to their points of origin.
As you stated in your video that the Maori have said that they came from a place called Hawaiki which we know as Hawai'i. I have heard of this professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo who brought in some Maori Elders and took them to the southernmost tip of the island, and the Maori elders chanted a chant passed down to them of how they came from a land called Hawaiki, where there were cliffs and mooring holes. Upon seeing the cliffs and mooring holes that were drilled through boulders where they could moor their canoes to, they cried as they understood that their chants were true.
Hawai'i is 2, 500 miles in the middle of the ocean. A people that could navigate and traverse across the largest body of water on our planet, using only sailing canoes, thousands of miles across open ocean, without maps but using the stars, is a testament to the knowledge that many of the Polynesians had to have to do so. It is learned, it is passed down, it is through experience of doing multiple times that they were able to do so. One simply cannot just go, they must return to pass on knowledge of what was found. One cannot just simply brush it off as happenstance that the S. American theory of just floating on the currents to reach Hawaii by Kuykendall is how they populated the Pacific Ocean, one has to realize that to progress, they need to return and that they need to do it on a repeated basis.
To brush off any notion that they could not do this, is to be shortsighted in what an accomplishment they were able to do.

[ragnapodewski]

If Polynesians landed inAntarctica, they turned their ships northward and searched for green coasts.

[kingtalamoni]

I am not sure of Hawaiki from NZ but Havaiki from Hawaii and Savaii (if shorten of "Savaiisi'uleo") from Samoa are closely weaven together with much similarities. Sea Navigators share similar ideas about the ocean and its provision. Very fascinating!

[mossig]

There are no Walruses in the southern hemisphere. They must have made it north of Hawaii to the Aleutian islands.

[bigred]

given south America, Patagonia and Tierra del feugo to be precise have high snow covered mountains icy conditions and possible icebergs to, considering there are large glaciers coming down to the sea in places, it may be that what the Maori are describing is the South West Coast of South America, given that there is an archipelago of Islands arching upward from Antarctica top the southern tip of cape of Good Hope.