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Alingano Maisu, the Glossary

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Alingano Maisu, also known as Maisu, is a double-hulled voyaging canoe built in Kawaihae, Hawaii, by members of Na Kalai Waa Moku o Hawaii and Ohana Wa'a members from throughout the Pacific and abroad as a gift and tribute to Satawalese navigator Mau Piailug, who navigated the voyaging canoe Hōkūleokinaa on her maiden voyage to Tahiti in 1976 and has since trained numerous native Hawaiians in the ancient art of wayfinding.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 26 relations: Breadfruit, Canoe sailing, Chuuk State, Hawaii (island), Hōkūleʻa, Japan, Ka Wai Ola, Kawaihae, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Mau Piailug, Micronesia, Native Hawaiians, Oahu, Outrigger boat, Palau, Palau Community College, Pohnpei, Polynesian navigation, Polynesian Voyaging Society, Pwo, Satawal, Tahiti, Ulithi, Wayfinding, Woleai, Yap.

  2. Culture of the Federated States of Micronesia
  3. Hōkūleʻa
  4. Polynesian navigation
  5. Replications of ancient voyages
  6. Symbols of Hawaii
  7. Voyaging canoes

Breadfruit

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and jackfruit family (Moraceae) believed to be a domesticated descendant of Artocarpus camansi originating in New Guinea, the Maluku Islands, and the Philippines. It was initially spread to Oceania via the Austronesian expansion.

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Canoe sailing

Canoe sailing refers to the practice of fitting an Austronesian outrigger or Western canoe with sails.

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Chuuk State

Chuuk State (also known as Truk) is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

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Hawaii (island)

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the largest island in the United States, located in the eponymous state of Hawaii.

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Hōkūleʻa

Hōkūlea is a performance-accurate waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Alingano Maisu and Hōkūleʻa are Hawaii culture, Individual sailing vessels, Polynesian navigation, Symbols of Hawaii and voyaging canoes.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Ka Wai Ola

Ka Wai Ola is a Hawaii-based newspaper published by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

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Kawaihae, Hawaii

Kawaihae is an unincorporated community on the west side of the island of HawaiOkinai in the U.S. state of HawaiOkinai, north of Kailua-Kona.

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Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Mau Piailug

Pius "Mau" Piailug (pronounced; 1932 – 12 July 2010) was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging. Alingano Maisu and Mau Piailug are Hōkūleʻa.

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Micronesia

Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of approximately 2,000 small islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Oahu

Oahu (Hawaiian: Oʻahu) is the most populated and third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Outrigger boat

Outrigger boats are various watercraft featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main hull. Alingano Maisu and outrigger boat are Polynesian navigation.

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Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific.

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Palau Community College is a public community college in the Republic of Palau.

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Pohnpei

Pohnpei (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, from Pohnpeian: "upon (pohn) a stone altar (pei)") is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group.

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Polynesian navigation

Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean.

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Polynesian Voyaging Society

The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai. Alingano Maisu and Polynesian Voyaging Society are Hawaii culture, Hōkūleʻa and Polynesian navigation.

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Pwo

Pwo is a sacred initiation ritual, in which students of traditional navigation in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia become navigators (palu) and are initiated in the associated secrets. Alingano Maisu and Pwo are Culture of the Federated States of Micronesia and Polynesian navigation.

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Satawal

Satawal is a solitary coral atoll of one island with about 500 people on just over 1 km2 located in the Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

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Ulithi

Ulithi (Wulthiy, Yulthiy, or Wugöy; pronounced roughly as YOU-li-thee) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap, within Yap State.

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Wayfinding

Wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place.

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Woleai

Woleai (Weleya), also known as Oleai, is a coral atoll of 22 islands in the western Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, forming a legislative district in the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia, and located approximately west-northwest of Ifalik and northeast of Eauripik.

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Yap

Yap (Waqab, sometimes written as, or) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State.

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See also

Culture of the Federated States of Micronesia

Hōkūleʻa

Polynesian navigation

Replications of ancient voyages

Symbols of Hawaii

Voyaging canoes

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alingano_Maisu